Other Settlements and Cities
- Celebrating Swedishness -
- Celebrating Swedishness -
For those who wish to travel to former Swedish enclaves in America to explore, the following stand out as special places where you can actually feel the "early" Swedish presence.
Already noted throughout SwedishAmericana are Kansas' Lindsborg referred to as "Little Sweden, USA;" Pennsylvania's Philadelphia's "American Swedish Historical Museum" and "New Sweden" including the Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey region of settlements of the first Swedes in America in 1638; Illinois' Chicago's Andersonville's "Swedish American Museum;" and California's San Francisco's Bay Area Swedish American Patriotic League's annual Morgan Hill "Sveadal Midsummer" festival.
Others are Iowa's Swedesburg's and their "Swedish American Museum" aka "Swedish Heritage Museum,"* and Stanton's Historical Society's "Swedish Heritage and Cultural Center;" Minnesota's Minneapolis' "American Swedish Institute;" Washington's Seattle's "Nordic Museum;" and Illinois' Rock Island's Augustana College's "Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center" -- the largest in the United States.
Happy Swedish American travels to all!
Already noted throughout SwedishAmericana are Kansas' Lindsborg referred to as "Little Sweden, USA;" Pennsylvania's Philadelphia's "American Swedish Historical Museum" and "New Sweden" including the Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey region of settlements of the first Swedes in America in 1638; Illinois' Chicago's Andersonville's "Swedish American Museum;" and California's San Francisco's Bay Area Swedish American Patriotic League's annual Morgan Hill "Sveadal Midsummer" festival.
Others are Iowa's Swedesburg's and their "Swedish American Museum" aka "Swedish Heritage Museum,"* and Stanton's Historical Society's "Swedish Heritage and Cultural Center;" Minnesota's Minneapolis' "American Swedish Institute;" Washington's Seattle's "Nordic Museum;" and Illinois' Rock Island's Augustana College's "Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center" -- the largest in the United States.
Happy Swedish American travels to all!
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- Swedesburg, Iowa -
(Census 2000: 86*)
home of the
Swedish American Museum / Swedish Heritage Museum
PENDING "SWEDISH AMERICAN MUSEUM" SWEDESBURG, IOWA, PERMISSION TO USE
Stanton, Iowa
(Census 2016: 637)
home of the
"Swedish Heritage and Cultural Center"
Minneapolis, Minnesota
(Census 2017: 422,000)
home of the
American Swedish Institute
Source: Courtesy of the American Swedish Institute
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Seattle, Washington
(census 2016: 736,000)
home of the
Nordic Heritage Museum
Seattle, Washington
(census 2016: 736,000)
home of the
Nordic Heritage Museum
Source: Courtesy of the Nordic Museum
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Nordic Museum
Nordic Museum
Rock Island, Illinois
(Census 2010: 39,000)
home of
Augustana College's Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center
(Census 2010: 39,000)
home of
Augustana College's Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center
Source: Mark Winter's Photography
