Italian Heritage Community

Since the organization of large-scale industry in the Mahoning Valley, Italians and their descendents have contributed to the area’s development. In this part of the Archive you learn what the early immigrants of this community and their children were concerned with. Here you will find news from the “old country” and from the other great centers of Italian immigration, Canada and Latin America: births, deaths, marriage notices, and family crises and joys. Also here to examine is correspondence exchanged between family members already landed in Youngstown and in nearby communities.