Finntown

A Finntown is a quarter populated by Finnish American people in the cities and big villages of the United States. In the United States there are a dozen Finntowns. In the Finntowns are services for Finnish people, usually at least a co-op store, a church and a town hall. In the biggest Finntowns there are, for example, saunas, restaurants, hotels, shoemakers, tailors, barbers and record stores all serving in Finnish. The biggest communities of Finnish Americans are in Brooklyn, New York (Finntown (Brooklyn)) and in Harlem, in Hancock, Michigan, in Duluth, Minnesota, in Butte, Montana, in Astoria, Oregon, Chicago, Berkeley, California, Ashtabula, Ohio and Cleveland.

The biggest Finnish-American community is in Lake Worth and Lantana in Florida. There 18 000 Finnish residents, both old and new immigrants.[1]