The Portuguese in San Leandro

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• The Portuguese In San Leandro available on September 08 2015 from Indigo for 24.99
  
• ISBN bar code 9780738558332 ξ3 registered September 08 2015
  
• ISBN bar code 9780738558332 ξ1 registered May 17 2012
  
• ISBN bar code 9780738558332 ξ2 registered May 17 2012
  
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When gold failed to pan out, many Portuguese moved to the hamlet of San Leandro on the San Francisco Bay where land was reasonable and the ground fertile. Gradually the post-Gold Rush settlers joined with former Portuguese shore whalers to farm the fields of San Leandro. San Leandro became a principal landing place for newly arrived Portuguese immigrants putting down roots on small farms. A steady stream of relatives from the Azores and Hawaii poured into San Leandro''s fertile foothills, and by 1911 the Portuguese comprised over two-thirds of the city''s population. The early days were rough--Portuguese immigrants banded together in fraternal societies to overcome a lack of resources and to help one another navigate a strange world whose language they did not speak. Today the Portuguese Immigrant monument in Root Park''s plaza commemorates the journey of Portuguese settlers who left everything behind to start a new life in the new world.

^ Meg Rogers (2012). The Portuguese in San Leandro, Arcadia Publishing. Product. ISBN 9780738558332 (revised May 2012)
^ Meg Rogers (2012). The Portuguese in San Leandro, Arcadia Publishing. Wiki. ISBN 9780738558332 (revised May 2012)
^ The Portuguese In San Leandro Indigo. ISBN 9780738558332 (revised Sep 2015)