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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 22. Chapters: Hamtramck, Michigan, Krakow Township, Michigan, National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame, Our Lady of Mount Carmel High School (Wyandotte, Michigan), Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish (Wyandotte, Michigan), Parisville, Michigan, Polish Home Army Museum, Orchard Lake, Michigan, Polish Wedding, Posen, Michigan, Posen Potato Festival, Posen Township, Michigan, Pulaski Days, Pulawski Township, Michigan, SS. Cyril and Methodius Seminary, St. Florian Church (Hamtramck, Michigan). Excerpt: Hamtramck ( -ik) is a city in Wayne County of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 22,423. Hamtramck is surrounded by the city of Detroit except for a small portion of the western border that touches the similarly surrounded city of Highland Park. Hamtramck is named for the French-Canadian soldier Jean Francois Hamtramck who was the first American commander of Fort Shelby, the fortification at Detroit. Hamtramck was originally settled by German farmers, but Polish immigrants flooded into the area when the Dodge Brothers plant opened in 1914. Poles used to make up a large proportion of the population. It is sometimes confused with Poletown, a traditional Polish neighborhood, which used to lie mostly in the city of Detroit and includes a small part of Hamtramck. As of the 2010 American Community Survey, 14.5% of Hamtramck's population is of Polish origin; in 1970, it was 90% Polish. Over the past thirty years, a large number of immigrants from the Middle East (especially Yemen) and South Asia (especially Bangladesh) have moved to the city. As of the 2010 American Community Survey, the city's foreign born population stood at 41.1%, making it Michigan's most internationally diverse city (see more at Demographics below). The population was 43,355 in the 1950 Census, and 18,372 in 1990. According to...