Signs, Symbols and Stones: The Portuguese American Urban Ethnic Landscape #7

Jim Fonseca
7 min readJun 28, 2021
The Azores Market in Fall River. Photo by the author.

Signage is one of the most obvious ways that a different culture presents itself in the American landscape.

We’re continuing our expedition to learn about a different culture, that of Portuguese Americans, and how aspects of that culture are visible in the landscape of southeastern New England. I’ve been taking pictures of these signs…

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Jim Fonseca

Geography professor (retired) writes The One Minute Geographer featuring This Fragile Earth. Top writer in Transportation and, in past months, Travel.