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From the old country to Ohio

Cleveland’s Czech community grew from three families in 1850 to about 10,000 people by 1890, gathered in “Little Bohemia” along Broadway. Catholics and freethinkers each built their own churches and halls, and Bohemian National Hall still stands.

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Sources

  1. Czechs — Encyclopedia of Cleveland History