Filipinos in Puget Sound (WA) (Images of America)

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Because the 19th century, Filipinos have immigrated to the Puget Sound region, which incorporates a deep inland sea once surrounded by forests and waters teeming with salmon. Seattle used to be the nearest mainland American port to the Far East. In 1909, the “Igorotte Village” used to be the preferred venue on the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, and the primary Filipina war bride arrived. Filipinos laid telephone and telegraph cables from Seattle to Alaska; were seamen, U.S. Navy recruits, students, and cannery workers; and worked in lumber mills, restaurants, or as houseboys. With one Filipina woman to 30 men, most early Filipino families within the Puget Sound were interracial. After World War II , communities grew with the arrival of new war brides, military families, immigrants, and exchange students and workers. Second-generation Pinoys and Pinays started their families. With the 1965 revision of U.S. immigration laws, the Filipino population in Puget Sound cities, towns, and farm areas grew swiftly and changed dramatically–as did all of Puget Sound.

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