A Dodge Bros. auto plant was established in 1914. attracting skilled and unskilled workers from around the Nation and the world. Between 1910 and 1920. Hamtramck boasted the greatest population growth of any community in the United States. going from 3.589 to 46.615 residents in a single decade. While Hamtramck was originally settled by the same French colonists who had settled Detroit. and later farmed by German immigrants. the automobile industry attracted huge numbers of Polish workers. Since 1910. Hamtramcks Polish population has grown so rapidly that today. 80 percent of its residents stem from first. second. or third generation Polish origin.
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