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Polonia ~ ca 1880
The Polonia community, situated off U.S. Highway 183 and FM 2001, lies just south of Rogers Ranch
and was settled by Polish immigrants in the 1880s. These families retained the Polish traditions brought
from their homeland as they established productive farms. The village had a cotton gin, blacksmith shop,
and a general merchandise store that provided needed supplies as well as a gathering place for the local people.
Among the families who resided in the community were these surnames: Bienek, Kalinowski, Malinowski, Scholwinski,
Urbanski, Boniewicz, Bonkowski, Zaleski, Wisewski, Grabarkiewtz, Petrosky, Foryszewski, Dikowski, Levndowski,
Foerster and Dzirzanowski. Descendants of those first settlers are educators, engineers and other professional
workers. Today only the cemetery marks the site of the community.
Source – Plum Creek Almanac, Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring 1995 and Caldwell County Kin: The First 150 Years published by the Genealogical and Historical Society of Caldwell County, November 2000
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