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According to 2021 census estimates, there are approximately 9,365,489 people of Scandinavian ancestry in the United States. [ 1 ] [ full citation needed ] Norsemen had explored the eastern coast of North America as early as the 11th century, though they created no lasting settlements.
The National Nordic Museum in the Ballard, a district Seattle heavily settled by Scandinavian immigrants, serves as a community gathering place. The Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah, Iowa is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to the experiences of a single immigrant population and has an extensive collection of ...
The people listed below were born in or otherwise closely associated with the village of Scandinavia, Wisconsin. Pages in category "People from Scandinavia, Wisconsin" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
American Studies in Scandinavia 48.2 (2016): 107–121. online On the 250,000 who went to USA but returned to Sweden. Brøndal, Jørn. Ethnic Leadership and Midwestern Politics: Scandinavian Americans and the Progressive Movement in Wisconsin, 1890–1914 (University of Illinois Press, 2004). Brøndal, Jørn.
(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s population was estimated at 5.96 million as of July 1, an increase from 5.90 million a year before and up from 5.89 million in July 2020, according to new ...
Scandinavia is a town in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,075 at the 2000 census. ... The population density was 31.8 people per square ...
While its population stood at 5,847,637 in 1920, Sweden accounted for a staggering 1,144,607 immigrants, making up 53.5% of the total Scandinavian immigrants to the US during this era. Norway, with its 1920 population pegged at 2,691,855, saw 693,450 Norwegians setting sail for American shores, constituting 32.4% of the Scandinavian influx.
The following year two other settlers, Søren Tollefsen Bache (1814–1890) and Johannes Johannsen, settled in an adjacent area in Racine County, just south of the first settlement, in what is now the town of Norway, Wisconsin. The Muskego Settlement thus came to straddle the county border. [2