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A Finn-town is a quarter populated by Finnish American people in the cities and big villages of the United States. In the United States there were a dozen Finntowns. In the Finntowns were services for Finnish people, usually at least a co-op store, a church and a hall. In the biggest Finntowns there were also for example saunas, restaurants, have hotels, shoemakers, tailors, barbers and record stores. The biggest communities of the Finnish Americans called Finntowns were for example Brooklyn, New York (Finntown (Brooklyn)) and in Harlem, in Hancock, Michigan, in Duluth, Minnesota, in Butte, Montana, in Astoria, Oregon, Chicago, Berkeley, California, Ashtabula, Ohio and Cleveland.

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  • A Finn-town is a quarter populated by Finnish American people in the cities and big villages of the United States. In the United States there were a dozen Finntowns. In the Finntowns were services for Finnish people, usually at least a co-op store, a church and a hall. In the biggest Finntowns there were also for example saunas, restaurants, have hotels, shoemakers, tailors, barbers and record stores. The biggest communities of the Finnish Americans called Finntowns were for example Brooklyn, New York (Finntown (Brooklyn)) and in Harlem, in Hancock, Michigan, in Duluth, Minnesota, in Butte, Montana, in Astoria, Oregon, Chicago, Berkeley, California, Ashtabula, Ohio and Cleveland. (en)
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  • A Finn-town is a quarter populated by Finnish American people in the cities and big villages of the United States. In the United States there were a dozen Finntowns. In the Finntowns were services for Finnish people, usually at least a co-op store, a church and a hall. In the biggest Finntowns there were also for example saunas, restaurants, have hotels, shoemakers, tailors, barbers and record stores. The biggest communities of the Finnish Americans called Finntowns were for example Brooklyn, New York (Finntown (Brooklyn)) and in Harlem, in Hancock, Michigan, in Duluth, Minnesota, in Butte, Montana, in Astoria, Oregon, Chicago, Berkeley, California, Ashtabula, Ohio and Cleveland. The Finntowns flourished until the 1950s, when they started to vanish. Nowadays the biggest Finnish-American community is in Lake Worth and Lantana in Florida. There are living 18 000 Finnish residents, both old and new immigrants. (en)
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