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Years	Image	Event	Description	Keywords
1634		Massachusetts immigrants settle Wethersfield and Windsor, Connecticut		Connecticut, colony, settlement
1870		The whaling industry attracts thousands of immigrants from the Azores		immigration
1870		Most female wage workers are employed in factories or as household servants.	In Boston, 8 of 10 household servants are foreign born. In textile mills, most are immigrants or the children of immigrants.	women's work, population, immigration
1905		Paul Revere House saved from demolition	The house, which was in an immigrant neighborhood, was reinvented as an early colonial dwelling. It is still open to the public.	museum
1912		Workers at Lowell live in ethnic communities		immigration, labor
1912		Strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts	For photos and original documents provided by the SUNY-Binghamtom, "Women and Social Movements" Web site see, "The 1912 Lawrence Strike: How Did Immigrant Workers Struggle to Achieve an American Standard of Living?"	labor, economy
1931		Polish Legion of American Veterans chartered.	Invoking the memory of Polish officers who fought in the American revolution, they eventually estabished units in New England.	immigrant