{"id":14899,"date":"2021-06-21T18:41:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T18:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/?page_id=14899"},"modified":"2022-07-14T18:22:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T18:22:57","slug":"lynn","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/immigrant-places\/lynn\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column]<figure class=\"vcex-image vcex-module wpex-text-center\"><div class=\"vcex-image-inner wpex-relative wpex-inline-block\"><img width=\"1000\" height=\"670\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AmityWashington-Sts-copy-1.jpg\" class=\"vcex-image-img wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"A photograph of an intersection with a streetcar line and a woman and two children in the foreground. In the background, there is a residential neighborhood with three-decker homes.\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AmityWashington-Sts-copy-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AmityWashington-Sts-copy-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AmityWashington-Sts-copy-1-768x515.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/div><\/figure>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1624327093266{margin-top: -40px !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>Immigrant neighborhood in downtown Lynn, looking up Amity Street from Washington Street, ca 1900. <\/em><em>Courtesy of Lynn Public Library.<\/em><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text]<style>.vcex-heading.vcex_69e60f6f30bb6{font-size:36px;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl vc_custom_1624302699029 vcex_69e60f6f30bb6\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">Lynn<\/span><\/div>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1624326135688{padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;]Home to the Naumkeag native people, the area that would become Lynn was first settled by British colonists in 1629. Originally part of a larger region called Saugus, the town was renamed Lynn in 1637 and soon became a center of leather and shoe making. These industries, along with electrical manufacturing, would attract tens of thousands of immigrant settlers, making Lynn one of the most diverse and dynamic cities in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shoe City<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although shoemaking began as a local artisan trade, it grew significantly with the American Revolution when the shoe market expanded across New England and beyond. At that time, most shoes were made in small family workshops known as ten-footers. As the industry grew, employers recruited seasonal workers from rural New England and in the 1860s began building large mechanized factories. By 1880, the city had more than 170 shoe factories, most of them clustered downtown.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14906\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14906\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/lynn\/lynn-tannery-workers-1890\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14906\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-14906\" src=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Lynn-Tannery-workers-1890.jpg\" alt=\"Immigrants were especially prevalent among leather workers, such as these men who labored in a tannery near the foot of Market Street in 1890.\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Lynn-Tannery-workers-1890.jpg 800w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Lynn-Tannery-workers-1890-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Lynn-Tannery-workers-1890-768x575.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Immigrants were especially prevalent among leather workers, such as these men who labored in a tannery near the foot of Market Street in 1890. Courtesy of Lynn Public Library.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These factories employed some 10,000 workers, many of them unskilled or semiskilled. While the shoe industry continued to rely on rural native-born labor for much of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century, it did attract a small stream of Irish and Canadian workers in the years before and after the Civil War. Immigrants made up an even larger proportion of the city\u2019s leather workers who labored amid noxious chemicals and fumes in nearby tanneries.<\/p>\n<p>By the twentieth century, Lynn had become the national leader in the production of women\u2019s shoes, drawing thousands of new workers. While Irish and Canadian migration declined after 1910, new groups from Russia, Italy, Poland, Sweden, and Greece poured into the city. By the eve of World War I, roughly a third of Lynn\u2019s population was foreign born. Many of the newcomers had been artisan shoemakers or needle workers in their home countries and brought traditions of union organizing that fortified Lynn\u2019s strong labor movement.<\/p>\n<p>Immigrant workers took up residence in downtown boarding houses and in homes within walking distance of the factories. The most populous immigrant quarter was the Brickyard, a working-class neighborhood just west of downtown. Many early Irish immigrants built homes there, but with the onslaught of new arrivals after 1900, houses were subdivided into tenements that housed multiple families. Local builders also erected hundreds of new three-deckers; between 1905 and 1913, more than 850 such apartment buildings popped up across the city, the majority in the Brickyard.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14909\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14909\" style=\"width: 376px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/lynn\/st-georges-greek-orthodox\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14909\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-14909\" src=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/St-Georges-Greek-Orthodox.jpg\" alt=\"Many Greek immigrants first settled around St. George Orthodox Church on Pleasant Street in the Brickyard. In 1954, the church completed a new building a few blocks away on the Common. Courtesy Lynn Public Library.\" width=\"376\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/St-Georges-Greek-Orthodox.jpg 553w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/St-Georges-Greek-Orthodox-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Many Greek immigrants first settled around St. George Orthodox Church on Pleasant Street in the Brickyard. In 1954, the church opened a new building a few blocks away on South Common Street. Courtesy of Lynn Public Library.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Different ethnic groups lived side-by-side but also clustered along certain streets. Russian Jews were prominent in the blocks around Blossom, Summer, and Pleasant Streets where they established synagogues, bakeries, kosher butchers and delicatessens. Over time, though, Jews and other immigrant groups moved out of the overcrowded Brickyard to West Lynn and the Highlands. Catholic immigrants tended to settle around the new ethnic parishes: French Canadians near St. Jean-Baptiste north of downtown and Poles in West Lynn near St. Michael. The Greek community clustered near St. George Orthodox Church in the Brickyard, while Swedes favored the Highrock area.<\/p>\n<p>The mid-1920s proved to be a critical turning point for Lynn\u2019s immigrant communities. Federal immigration restriction dramatically reduced migration just as the city\u2019s shoe industry contracted. Dozens of shoe shops closed; others relocated to regions with lower taxes and labor costs. The depression of the 1930s accelerated the decline, and many of the downtown boarding houses and cafeterias closed. During these years, investment was redirected to the electrical industry and the General Electric plant in West Lynn. By 1930, the sprawling GE plant employed more Lynn workers than the shoe industry. Most were second generation, but smaller numbers of Italians, Poles, and Greeks continued to arrive in Lynn, as did a small stream of Black workers from Nova Scotia, the Caribbean, and the American South.<\/p>\n<p>After the defense boom of World War II, and with the help of the GI Bill and low-interest veterans housing loans, the younger generation of white immigrant families began moving to the suburbs. Lynn\u2019s population fell from a high of 102,320 in 1930 to only 78,471 in 1980\u2014with the foreign-born share of the population dropping to only 9 percent. Local manufacturing continued to decline, and the downtown withered. In an attempt to stimulate new investment, the city used federal urban renewal funds to demolish much of the old Brickyard neighborhood in the 1960s. The project displaced many elderly immigrants but did little to spur development. Lynn\u2019s economy continued to falter, and a torrential fire burned the last remaining shoe factory to the ground in 1981.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Immigration Since the 1960s<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite its troubled economy, Lynn\u2019s affordable housing and welcoming services continued to attract newcomers\u2014particularly refugees. Beginning in the 1970s, the city\u2019s older Jewish community helped sponsor Jewish refugees from the Soviet Union. Then in the eighties and nineties, more than two thousand Cambodian refugees and immigrants settled in Lynn. In the wake of the Vietnam war, Cambodians fled the killing fields of the Pol Pot regime, and many were drawn to a Buddhist temple founded in Lynn in 1984. Smaller numbers of refugees from Bosnia, Sudan, Somalia, Nepal, Bhutan, and other countries have also resettled in the city. They found support at the New American Center, founded in 2002 by earlier Russian emigres who joined with newer refugee groups to offer housing, employment, ESL, and other support services.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14907\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14907\" style=\"width: 567px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/lynn\/youthprogram\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14907\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-14907\" src=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/YouthProgram.jpg\" alt=\"Among its many services, the New American Center offers programs for immigrant youth. Courtesy of New American Center.\" width=\"567\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/YouthProgram.jpg 960w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/YouthProgram-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/YouthProgram-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Among its many services, the New American Center offers programs for immigrant youth. Courtesy of New American Center.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In recent decades, Lynn has drawn migrants from other regions as well. Latinos have figured prominently in this growth, dating back to the 1960s when newcomers from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic first settled in the city. By 2010, Dominicans had become Lynn\u2019s largest foreign-born group. Since the 1980s, Central Americans have further diversified the Latino population as they fled civil wars in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. Lynn\u2019s Guatemalan community is now one of the largest in Massachusetts and includes a significant number of Mam Mayan-speaking indigenous people. Altogether, Latinos now make up more than 40 percent of the city\u2019s population. Haitian immigrants and refugees from African countries have also increased the Black population, which now makes up around 14 percent of the city\u2019s total.<\/p>\n<p>While Lynn\u2019s economy has not fully recovered from the decline of the shoe industry, the arrival of new immigrants has helped rejuvenate the city. After decades of decline, Lynn\u2019s population has grown again as newcomers have taken up residence. The foreign born now make up a greater share of Lynn\u2019s population than at any time in the past\u2014with more than 40 languages spoken. Though they face many challenges, their small businesses and organizations have brought new vitality to downtown and to the old streets and neighborhoods where shoe workers once trod.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Works Cited<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cumbler, John T. <em>Working-Class Community in Industrial America: Work, Leisure, and Struggle in Two Industrial cities, 1880-1930<\/em>. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Dawley, Alan. <em>Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn<\/em>. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Glover, Kathryn. <em>The Brickyard: The Life, Death, and Legend of an Urban Neighborhood<\/em>. Lynn, MA: Lynn Museum and Historical Society, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Melder, Keith. <em>Life and Times in Shoe City: The Shoe Workers of Lynn.<\/em> Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Pierce, Alan S. <em>A History of Boston&#8217;s Jewish North Shore<\/em>. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Rosenberg, Steven. \u201cRussian Program a Casualty of Cuts,\u201d <em>Boston Globe<\/em>, September 26, 2002.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<style>.vcex-teaser.vcex_69e60f6f31436 .vcex-teaser-heading{color:#494949;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-teaser wpex-flex wpex-flex-col vc_custom_1624575617750 vcex_69e60f6f31436\"><div class=\"vcex-teaser-media wpex-mb-20\"><a href=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/an-irish-shoeworkers-story\/\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img width=\"600\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-asset.jpg\" class=\"wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"A postcard (??) of an eight-story building at an intersection of two streets in downtown Lynn.\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-asset.jpg 600w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-asset-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"vcex-teaser-content\"><h2 class=\"vcex-teaser-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-lg wpex-child-inherit-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/an-irish-shoeworkers-story\/\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">60 Years in Lynn: An Irish Shoeworker's Story<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"vcex-teaser-text wpex-mt-10 wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p>In one of the earliest oral histories of shoeworkers in Lynn, this Irish immigrant tells his story of coming to America, working in the shoe factories, and the changing composition of the Lynn workforce.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<style>.vcex-teaser.vcex_69e60f6f31cbf .vcex-teaser-heading{color:#494949;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-teaser wpex-flex wpex-flex-col vc_custom_1631843673616 vcex_69e60f6f31cbf\"><div class=\"vcex-teaser-media wpex-mb-20\"><a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/lynn\/jews-in-the-shoe-trade\/\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\" title=\"Jews in the Shoe Trade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img width=\"800\" height=\"603\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Women-stitchers-AE-Little-Co.jpg\" class=\"wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"A photograph of two rows of women working on sewing machines in a shoe factory.\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Women-stitchers-AE-Little-Co.jpg 800w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Women-stitchers-AE-Little-Co-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Women-stitchers-AE-Little-Co-768x579.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"vcex-teaser-content\"><h2 class=\"vcex-teaser-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-lg wpex-child-inherit-color\"><a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/lynn\/jews-in-the-shoe-trade\/\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\" title=\"Jews in the Shoe Trade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Jews in the Shoe Trades<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"vcex-teaser-text wpex-mt-10 wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p>While thousands of Russian and Eastern European Jews labored in Lynn&#8217;s shoe factories, a smaller number followed a surprising path to become successful entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<style>.vcex-teaser.vcex_69e60f6f32472 .vcex-teaser-heading{color:#494949;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-teaser wpex-flex wpex-flex-col vc_custom_1624564423326 vcex_69e60f6f32472\"><div class=\"vcex-teaser-media wpex-mb-20 responsive-video-wrap\"><span class=\"wpex-responsive-media\"><iframe title=\"Shoe Maker Mr Jan Ernst Matzeliger\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hzzXUFyvFF0?start=9&feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><div class=\"vcex-teaser-content\"><h2 class=\"vcex-teaser-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-lg wpex-child-inherit-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hzzXUFyvFF0&#038;t=9s\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\">Jan Matzeliger: Surinamese Inventor<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"vcex-teaser-text wpex-mt-10 wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p>A Surinamese immigrant, Jan Matzeliger came to Lynn in 1877 and worked as an apprentice in a shoe factory. Six years later, he invented a lasting machine that would revolutionize the shoe industry.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/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|title:Immigrant%20Places||&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1624327093266{margin-top: -40px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 10px !important;padding-top: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;] Immigrant neighborhood in downtown Lynn, looking up Amity Street from Washington Street, ca 1900. Courtesy of Lynn Public Library. 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