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. In the United States there were a dozen Finntowns. In the Finntowns were services for Finnish people, usually at least a co-op store, a church and a town hall. In the biggest Finntowns there were, for example, saunas, restaurants, hotels, shoemakers, tailors, barbers and record stores all serving in Finnish. The biggest communities of Finnish Americans were in

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and in

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, in Hancock, Michigan, in

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, in

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, in

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, Berkeley, California, Ashtabula, Ohio and Cleveland. The Finntowns flourished until the 1950s, when they started to vanish. Nowadays the biggest Finnish-American community is in Lake Worth and

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in Florida. There 18 000 Finnish residents, both old and new immigrants.Turun sanomat

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*Pitkänen, Silja & Sutinen, Ville-Juhani: ''Amerikansuomalaisten tarina'', Tammi, 2014. ISBN 978-951-31-7568-9. *Turun Sanomat, 5 April in 2006, https://www.ts.fi/teemat/1074112019 Culture of Finland Finnish diaspora Finnish diaspora in the United States Finnish-American culture