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The
people who settled in the Windsor area c. 1900 - 1925 were
mainly from the northeastern Italian regions of Friuli and
Veneto. But there were also representatives from the northwest
region of Lombardia and from the central and southern regions
of Lazio, Le Marche, Molise, Abruzzi, Campania, Calabria and
Sicilia. Upon arrival, most of them lived with or near other
Italian families which formed various clusters in different
parts of the city: 1) in the areas of Windsor Avenue, Langlois
Avenue (4-5 families by 1924), 2) Parent and Tecumseh, 3) Mercer
and Wyandotte (near the grocery store), 4) the city market
area and 5) by the Michigan Central
Railroad, where some of them worked. There
is no
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