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https://alausa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/DSC02476-1024x681.jpg1024681The first Latvians arrived in the United States in the mid-1800’s. Initially their numbers were small, but they did manage to establish a number of churches and clubs, some of which are still in existence in Boston and Philadelphia. Around 1905, as civil unrest spread through Eastern Europe, thousands of additional Latvians fled from government […]