{"id":1036,"date":"2017-01-11T17:27:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T17:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/?page_id=1036"},"modified":"2025-06-09T15:42:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T15:42:16","slug":"east-boston","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/immigrant-places\/east-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"East Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1484190598611{margin-top: -70px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 10px !important;padding-top: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;]\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Homes of immigrant families\u00a0on Marginal Street, 1909. Courtesy Boston City Archives.<\/em><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text]<style>.vcex-heading.vcex_69e1b7a76279b{font-size:36px;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl vc_custom_1484155879260 vcex_69e1b7a76279b\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">East Boston<\/span><\/div>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1676041256177{padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;]During the colonial era, the area that would become East Boston was comprised of five islands in Boston Harbor&#8211;Noddle\u2019s, Apple, Governor\u2019s, Bird, and Hog Islands. Samuel Maverick was the first European settler on Noddle\u2019s Island in 1633, but it would be another two hundred years before major development and landfilling began. In 1833 General William Sumner founded the East Boston Trade Company, which began filling the swamps, building wharves, and developing a railroad freight terminal. In 1836, the city of Boston annexed East Boston&#8211;or Eastie, as locals later called it&#8211;and new industries sprung up, including a sugar refinery, an iron forgery, a timber company, and numerous shipbuilders.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1051\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1051\" style=\"width: 406px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1051\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Glory-of-the-Sea-1869-1024x770.jpg\" alt=\"Launching of the Glory of the Sea from Donald McKay's shipyard on Border Street, 1869.\" width=\"406\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Glory-of-the-Sea-1869-1024x770.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Glory-of-the-Sea-1869-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Glory-of-the-Sea-1869-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Glory-of-the-Sea-1869.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Launching of the Glory of the Sea clipper ship from Donald McKay&#8217;s shipyard on Border Street, 1869.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The best known of East Boston\u2019s\u00a0industrialists was Donald McKay, an immigrant from Nova Scotia who opened a shipyard on Border Street in 1845, Over the next forty years, McKay produced clipper ships that set speed records around the world. McKay hired skilled workers from Canada\u2019s Maritime Provinces, Scotland, and Scandinavia. During the nineteenth century, in fact, East Boston had more Canadian-born residents than any other neighborhood in Boston. Growing from a community of roughly 1300 in 1855 to about 9000 by 1900, Canadians worked mainly in the shipyards or later as carpenters, machinists, pile drivers, and clerks.<\/p>\n<p>As in other parts of the city, the Irish made up the largest foreign-born group in East Boston. Irish migration surged with the Great Famine of the 1840s, and the Census recorded more than 3500 Irish-born residents in 1855. The majority worked as laborers who drained the swamps, built the wharves, and later moved goods on East Boston\u2019s bustling waterfront. Until the 1880s, they lived mainly near the waterfront around Jeffries Point, Maverick Square, and Eagle Hill. Irish Catholics founded St. Nicholas Church\u2014later renamed Most Holy Redeemer\u2014in 1844. The church and its parochial school became the center of Irish Catholic life in East Boston and would remain the largest immigrant-serving parish for later ethnic groups.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1046\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1046\" style=\"width: 404px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1046\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Immigrants-Home-1910.jpg\" alt=\"Immigrants Home on Marginal Street, 1910.\" width=\"404\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Immigrants-Home-1910.jpg 604w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Immigrants-Home-1910-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1046\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Founded in the 1880s, the Protestant-run Immigrants Home offered shelter for newly arrived women and children on Marginal Street, pictured here in 1910. City of Boston Archives.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With the completion of the first railroads to the mainland in 1875 and the first streetcar tunnel to downtown in 1901, East Boston became more closely connected to the rest of the city. And it soon became a convenient landing area for a new wave of immigrants from Russia, Italy, and Portugal. The neighborhood\u2019s population thus grew from 36,930 in 1890 to 62,377 in 1915. The newcomers found work in the railroad docks, coal yards, machine shops, and candy, shoe, textile, and garment factories that replaced the old wooden shipbuilding industry. In the 1880s two settlements, Good Will House on Webster Street and Trinity House on Meridian Street, as well as the Immigrant&#8217;s Home on Marginal Way, were established to help the new arrivals. Moreover, the influx of newcomers created a need for new family housing, and hundreds of triple deckers were constructed beginning in the 1880s.<\/p>\n<p>Jews from Russia and Eastern Europe were the first of these newer migrant groups to arrive in East Boston in the 1890s. Fleeing violent pogroms in the Russian empire and the crowded living conditions of the North and West Ends, Jews settled in the area north of Maverick Square and in Eagle Hill. By the early twentieth century, there was a thriving Jewish retail area of kosher markets, restaurants, and other businesses along Chelsea and Porter Streets. Several synagogues were located nearby, including the largest, Ohel Jacob, on the corner of Gove and Paris Streets. Jewish population peaked around World War I, with an estimated five thousand foreign-born residents. It was likely the largest Jewish community in Boston at the time.<\/p>\n<p>During these same years, Italians also began settling in East Boston. Many came from the North End, but soon others arrived directly from Calabria and Sicily. In the early years of the twentieth century, they settled in Jeffries Point and in the blocks north of Maverick Square, while a smaller population of immigrants from northern Italy settled in Orient Heights. This Italian-born population more than doubled between 1910 and 1920, growing from 4565 to 10,151. Serving the religious needs of the growing Italian community, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church on Gove Street opened in 1905, offering masses and other services in Italian.<\/p>\n<p>After World War I, Italians and Italian Americans became the dominant ethnic group in East Boston and remained so until the late twentieth century. Eastie\u2019s Irish, meanwhile, drifted north to Orient Heights and Winthrop while local Jews moved to Chelsea, Roxbury, Dorchester, and other rising Jewish communities. Noting the neighborhood\u2019s role as a gateway for immigrant strivers who later moved on to higher income areas, settlement workers dubbed East Boston \u201ca zone of emergence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>East Boston\u2019s population peaked in 1925, with over 64,000 residents. Immigration restriction in the 1920s, however, gradually reduced the migrant population thereafter. The East Boston Immigration Station, which opened in 1921, acted mainly as a screening and detention center for unauthorized immigrants and deportees. Eastie, meanwhile, became a largely Italian-American neighborhood, whose population began to decline after World War II. As Boston\u2019s economy shifted from a manufacturing to a service-based economy, many local plants closed, including East Boston\u2019s Maverick Mills in 1955, the Bethlehem Shipyards in 1983, and P&amp;L Sportswear in 1986. Nevertheless, the growth of Logan Airport employed many of Eastie\u2019s ethnic families, stimulating the economy but also prodding development that encroached on neighborhood space and quality of life.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1052\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1052\" style=\"width: 409px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1052\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Salvadoran-Dancers.jpg\" alt=\"Salvadoran women performing a traditional dance at the Salvadoran American Day Parade in East Boston, 2016. Courtesy Salvadoran Consulate.\" width=\"409\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Salvadoran-Dancers.jpg 527w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Salvadoran-Dancers-300x287.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Salvadoran women performing a traditional dance at the Salvadoran American Day Parade in East Boston, 2016. Courtesy of the Salvadoran Consulate.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The passage of the 1965 Immigration Act opened a new era of migration that later replenished Eastie\u2019s population with a diverse new crop of immigrants. Beginning in the 1980s, a growing stream of Southeast Asians and Latin Americans began settling in the neighborhood. The largest groups came from Central America and Colombia, where civil wars, drug-related violence, and economic turmoil spurred many to leave. Others were refugees from the Vietnam War and the Cambodian genocide. As they settled among the older and declining white population, some of them found a hostile or even violent reception. Nevertheless, new arrivals continued to settle in Eastie in the 1990s and beyond, including newer groups from Mexico, Brazil, Peru, and Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>Today, East Boston is an extremely diverse neighborhood with the highest percentage of foreign-born of any Boston neighborhood. Recently, housing costs have increased significantly as new luxury condominiums have been built along the waterfront, raising rents and forcing out many working-class immigrants. Throughout its history East Boston has endured numerous changes, but it has long acted as a home for immigrant strivers. It remains to be seen, however, whether East Boston will retain its reputation as a zone of emergence or if the impending gentrification will mark a new chapter for the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p><em>Research and writing for this profile was the work of students in Professor Marilynn Johnson\u2019s Contested Cities Seminar in the History Department at Boston College in 2016. For more on the history of specific immigrant groups in East Boston, please see the links below.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<style>.vcex-teaser.vcex_69e1b7a76300c .vcex-teaser-heading{color:#494949;}<\/style><a class=\"vcex-module vcex-teaser vcex-teaser-has-link wpex-inherit-color wpex-no-underline wpex-flex wpex-flex-col vc_custom_1749483677634 vcex_69e1b7a76300c\" href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/immigrant-places\/east-boston\/irish-in-east-boston\/\"><div class=\"vcex-teaser-media wpex-mb-20\"><img width=\"470\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/3480712-1.jpg\" class=\"wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"A long dock with many large sailboats on either side.\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/3480712-1.jpg 470w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/3480712-1-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"vcex-teaser-content\"><h2 class=\"vcex-teaser-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-lg\">Irish in East Boston<\/h2><div class=\"vcex-teaser-text wpex-mt-10 wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p>The first major immigrant group in East Boston, the Irish helped build its docks, railroads, and factories, while establishing enduring religious and political institutions.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/a>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<style>.vcex-teaser.vcex_69e1b7a76382a .vcex-teaser-heading{color:#494949;}<\/style><a class=\"vcex-module vcex-teaser vcex-teaser-has-link wpex-inherit-color wpex-no-underline wpex-flex wpex-flex-col vc_custom_1749483685557 vcex_69e1b7a76382a\" href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/immigrant-places\/east-boston\/italians-in-east-boston\/\"><div class=\"vcex-teaser-media wpex-mb-20\"><img width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Santarpios.jpg\" class=\"wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Santarpios.jpg 640w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Santarpios-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"vcex-teaser-content\"><h2 class=\"vcex-teaser-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-lg\">Italians in East Boston<\/h2><div class=\"vcex-teaser-text wpex-mt-10 wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p>First arriving in the 1890s, Italians would become the dominant immigrant group in East Boston for much of the twentieth century. Their presence is still quite visible there today.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/a>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<style>.vcex-teaser.vcex_69e1b7a763f64 .vcex-teaser-heading{color:#494949;}<\/style><a class=\"vcex-module vcex-teaser vcex-teaser-has-link wpex-inherit-color wpex-no-underline wpex-flex wpex-flex-col vc_custom_1749483694789 vcex_69e1b7a763f64\" href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/immigrant-places\/east-boston\/jews-in-east-boston\/\"><div class=\"vcex-teaser-media wpex-mb-20\"><img width=\"1280\" height=\"863\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/BI_Ladies_AuxEB.jpg\" class=\"wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"Many women dressed similar white long dresses and black hats are seated and gathered around in two rows. The three women seated in the center holds a pendant that reads &quot;East Boston Ladies.&quot;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/BI_Ladies_AuxEB.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/BI_Ladies_AuxEB-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/BI_Ladies_AuxEB-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/BI_Ladies_AuxEB-1024x690.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"vcex-teaser-content\"><h2 class=\"vcex-teaser-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-lg\">Jews in East Boston<\/h2><div class=\"vcex-teaser-text wpex-mt-10 wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p>Russian Jews began arriving in East Boston in the 1890s, and by the 1910s, it had become one of the largest Jewish communities in New England. But after World War II, the community rapidly disappeared.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/a>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<style>.vcex-teaser.vcex_69e1b7a764688 .vcex-teaser-heading{color:#494949;}<\/style><a class=\"vcex-module vcex-teaser vcex-teaser-has-link wpex-inherit-color wpex-no-underline wpex-flex wpex-flex-col vc_custom_1749483706672 vcex_69e1b7a764688\" href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/immigrant-places\/east-boston\/colombians-in-east-boston\/\"><div class=\"vcex-teaser-media wpex-mb-20\"><img width=\"936\" height=\"548\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Inside-Billares-Colombia-Bennington-St-New.jpg\" class=\"wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Inside-Billares-Colombia-Bennington-St-New.jpg 936w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Inside-Billares-Colombia-Bennington-St-New-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Inside-Billares-Colombia-Bennington-St-New-768x450.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 936px) 100vw, 936px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"vcex-teaser-content\"><h2 class=\"vcex-teaser-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-lg\">Colombians in East Boston<\/h2><div class=\"vcex-teaser-text wpex-mt-10 wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p>Settling in East Boston since the 1980s, Colombians are now the neighborhood&#8217;s second largest foreign-born group. Sometimes called &#8220;Little Colombia,&#8221; East Boston hosts roughly three-quarters of the city&#8217;s Colombian population, who can be found from Maverick to Orient Heights.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/a>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<style>.vcex-teaser.vcex_69e1b7a765026 .vcex-teaser-heading{color:#494949;}<\/style><a class=\"vcex-module vcex-teaser vcex-teaser-has-link wpex-inherit-color wpex-no-underline wpex-flex wpex-flex-col vc_custom_1749483714329 vcex_69e1b7a765026\" href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/immigrant-places\/east-boston\/southeast-asians-in-east-boston\/\"><div class=\"vcex-teaser-media wpex-mb-20\"><img width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Emmanuel-Coronation.jpg\" class=\"wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Emmanuel-Coronation.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Emmanuel-Coronation-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Emmanuel-Coronation-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"vcex-teaser-content\"><h2 class=\"vcex-teaser-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-lg\">Southeast Asians in East Boston<\/h2><div class=\"vcex-teaser-text wpex-mt-10 wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p>Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees began settling in Eastie in the 1980s, in the wake of the Vietnam war. Although their population has dropped in recent years, Southeast Asians remain a distinctive part of the neighborhood&#8217;s fabric.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/a>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<style>.vcex-teaser.vcex_69e1b7a76575f .vcex-teaser-heading{color:#494949;}<\/style><a class=\"vcex-module vcex-teaser vcex-teaser-has-link wpex-inherit-color wpex-no-underline wpex-flex wpex-flex-col vc_custom_1749483731130 vcex_69e1b7a76575f\" href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/immigrant-places\/east-boston\/central-americans-in-east-boston\/\"><div class=\"vcex-teaser-media wpex-mb-20\"><img width=\"1462\" height=\"1016\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Salvador_procession.jpg\" class=\"wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Salvador_procession.jpg 1462w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Salvador_procession-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Salvador_procession-768x534.jpg 768w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Salvador_procession-1024x712.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1462px) 100vw, 1462px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"vcex-teaser-content\"><h2 class=\"vcex-teaser-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-lg\">Central Americans in East Boston<\/h2><div class=\"vcex-teaser-text wpex-mt-10 wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p>Arriving since the 1980s, Central Americans now make up the largest immigrant group in East Boston. The area has become especially important for Salvadorans whose businesses, churches, and political and cultural organizations have helped revitalize the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/a>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<style>.vcex-teaser.vcex_69e1b7a765e71 .vcex-teaser-heading{color:#494949;}<\/style><a class=\"vcex-module vcex-teaser vcex-teaser-has-link wpex-inherit-color wpex-no-underline wpex-flex wpex-flex-col vc_custom_1749483631182 vcex_69e1b7a765e71\" href=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/immigrant-places\/east-boston\/celebrating-mexican-culture\/\"><div class=\"vcex-teaser-media wpex-mb-20\"><img width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/veronica_robles.jpg\" class=\"wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/veronica_robles.jpg 360w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/veronica_robles-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/veronica_robles-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/veronica_robles-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"vcex-teaser-content\"><h2 class=\"vcex-teaser-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-lg\">Celebrating Mexican Culture<\/h2><div class=\"vcex-teaser-text wpex-mt-10 wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p>Mexicans are one of the newer immigrant groups to settle in East Boston. Veronica Robles has ensured that Mexican culture has a home there.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/a>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=&#8221;Return to Immigrant Places&#8221; style=&#8221;3d&#8221; color=&#8221;inverse&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:http%3A%2F%2Fglobalboston.bc.edu%2Findex.php%2Fhome%2Fimmigrant-places%2F||&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1484190598611{margin-top: -70px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 10px !important;padding-top: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;] Homes of immigrant families\u00a0on Marginal Street, 1909. Courtesy Boston City Archives. 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