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Stavros K. Frangos, author of Greeks in Michigan, stated "From the 1890s to the present all available sources agree that" about one third of Michigan's Greek Americans live in Metro Detroit. [2] At the turn of the 20th Century the first Greek immigrants arrived. [1] The first year of entry was 1886. [2]
Andrea Dimitry – Greek-American soldier in the War of 1812 fought in the Battle of New Orleans; George Doundoulakis – Greek-American soldier who worked under British Intelligence during World War II and served with the OSS in Thessaly, Greece. Later becoming a physicist, he is known by his twenty-six US patents in the fields of radar ...
Greek American novelist Jeffrey Eugenides won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex, about a Greek American family in Detroit. In 1967, Academy Award-winning film-director Elia Kazan published a novel, The Arrangement: A Novel, about a conflicted Greek American living a double life as an advertising executive and muckraking journalist ...
Other White/European ethnic groups. As of 2001, Metro Detroit also had the U.S.'s largest concentrations of Belgians, Chaldeans, and Maltese people that year. [28] A group of Dutch people arrived in Detroit after Henry Ford's $5 per day wage announcement.
The Marantette House is a private house located on Simpson Road in Mendon, Michigan. It is significant as an impressive vernacular version of Greek Revival architecture. Located along the St. Joseph River, it is also one of the few local examples of a riverfront orientation of a house, dating from when river traffic dominated area ...
Greektown, Detroit. / 42.33500°N 83.04222°W / 42.33500; -83.04222. Greektown is a commercial and entertainment district in Detroit, Michigan, located just northeast of the heart of downtown, along Monroe Avenue between Brush and St. Antoine streets. It has a station by that name on the city's elevated downtown transit system known as ...
Aerial view of a classification yard and two train ferries on the Detroit River, 1943. During World War II, Detroit became a center of industry, largely due to its innovative roots. The treatment of African Americans during World War II, however, represented the duality between an increase in labor and a decrease in the standard of living.
N. National Coney Island. Categories: European American culture in Michigan. Greek-American culture by state.