St. Nicholas Church

Slavic and Romanian immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the expanded Russian Empire including peoples from modern day Russia, Ukraine, Bukovina, Belarus, Carpatho-Ukraine, Slovakia, Lithuania and Poland were drawn to the Flint area in the early 1900s because of work available in the factories.  The Slav-Rus community settled predominantly in the north end of Flint clustered around St John Street.  Most of the new immigrants came from agricultural backgrounds in the old country and fr...