Interactive Map, 1870-2010
Click on town shapes to see foreign-born percentages; click on buttons on right to see data for different years. Source: US Decennial Census, 1870-2010; American Community Survey, 2022 5-year estimates
Joe Portaleki PDF
The owner of the Ace Hardware store in Roslindale, Josef (Joe) Porteleki was born in 1947 in Hungary, son of Gertrude Gerersdorfer, an Austrian national, and Joszef Porteleki, a Hungarian. Joe and his family were among the more than 900,000 war…
The West End
Corner of Spring and Chambers Streets in Boston's West End, 1910. Courtesy of the Trustees of Boston Public Library.
Map of Boston’s Foreign Born, 2020
Map and data courtesy of the Boston Planning and Development Agency
Cholera Report
In the summer of 1849, Boston was engulfed in a cholera epidemic that spread from England to the US via emigrant ships. Irish immigrants were particularly hard hit by the disease, accounting for more than 500 of the 611 recorded deaths…
