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Cities in the US with a significant population with Belgian Ancestry
Nineteenth-century settlement patterns followed work opportunities. For example, the glass industry in the East attracted many to West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Detroit, Michigan, attracted building tradespeople. Door, Brown, and Kewaunee Counties in Wisconsin attracted those seeking farmland. Considerable numbers came to Indiana. Substantial pockets of Belgian Americans can also be found in Illinois, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, Kentucky, Florida, Washington, and Oregon. Many towns and cities across the United States bear the names of their counterparts in Belgium: Liege, Charleroi, Ghent, Antwerp, Namur, Rosiere, Brussels. Michigan and Wisconsin have the largest population of Belgian Americans, with the above-named Wisconsin counties having the largest rural settlement in the United States. The Belgian American settlement in Detroit took place mainly between 1880 and 1910. Most of these new arrivals were skilled Flemish crafts people. Detroit's early industrial and manufacturing growth was fueled in great part by their skills in the building trades and transportation. According to Jozef Kadijk, whose 1963 lecture at Loyola University in Chicago appears in Belgians in the United States, approximately 10,000 residents of Detroit at that time were born in Belgium
Alabama Alaska Arizona Counties: Maricopa, Pima Arkansas California Counties: Alameda, Contra Costa , Fresno, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Joachin, Santa Clara, Tulare, Ventura Colorado Connecticut Counties: Fairfield Delaware Florida Counties: Broward, Dade, Hillsborough, Palm Beach, Pinellas Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Counties: Bureau, Cook, DuPage, Henry, Kane, Kankakee, Lake, Mercer, Rock Island Indiana Counties: Perry, Blackford, Delaware, Knoxe, Marion, St Joseph Iowa Counties: Jasper, Poweshick, Scott, Tama Kansas Counties: Cherokee, Crawford, Johnson, Shawnee. Kentucky Louisiana Parishes: Rapides Parish Maine Maryland Counties: Montgomery Massachusetts Counties: Essex, Middlesex Michigan Counties: Alger, Bay, Delta, Dickinson, Genesee, Ingham, Kent, Macomb, Menomine, onroe, Oakland, aginaw, St Clair, Washtenaw, Wayne Minnesota Counties: Dakota, Hennepin, Lincoln, yon, Pipestone, Ramsey, ed Wood, Yellow Medecine Missouri Counties: Audrain, Bates, Jackson, cott, St Louis, Veron. Mississippi Montana Counties: Pondera, Treasure, Wibaux Nebraska Counties: Douglas Nevada Counties: Clark New Hampshire Counties: Hillsborough New Jersey Counties: Bergen, Passaic New Mexico New York Counties: Kings, Monroe, Nassau, New York, Queens, Suffolk, Westchester North Carolina North Dakota Counties: Divide Ohio Counties: Franklin, Lucas Oklahoma Counties: oodward. Oregon Counties: clackamas, Marion, Multnomah, Washington. Pennsylvania Counties: Allegheny, Crawford Washington, Westmoreland Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Custer County Custer County South Dakota Genealogy Tennessee Texas Counties: Bexar, Dallas, Harris Utah Vermont Virginia Counties: Fairfax Washington Counties: King, Pierre, Snohomish, Spokane. Washington DC West Virginia Wisconsin Counties: Brown Dane, Door, Douglas, Florence, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Marinette, Milwaukee, Oconto, Outagamie, Racine, Waukesha, Winnebago. NB: Kewaunee County has the highest percentage residents of Belgian origin. Wyoming
Source: Belgium.rootsweb.com