In the news: Hamtramck, Michigan

In the first majority-Muslim U.S. city, residents tense about its future.  (Washington Post, 11/21/2015)

Earlier this month, the blue-collar city that has been home to Polish Catholic immigrants and their descendents for more than a century became what demographers think is the first jurisdiction in the nation to elect a majority-Muslim council.

Source:  Wikipedia

Source:  Detroit Works

Also from the Post article:

While the city’s Polish Catholic population has shrunk from 90 percent in 1970 to about 11 percent today, in part as the old residents have moved to more prosperous suburbs, Polish American culture still permeates the town.

Source:  U.S. Census State and County QuickFacts

The Dodge Main assembly plant opened in Hamtramck in 1910.  Between then and 1920, the city's population grew by 1266%.

The plant closed in 1979 and was demolished two years later.





Hamtramck Historical Museum