Hammonton,NJ sounds like Heaven, and the best of both worlds!!!!
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EAST HAVEN EDGED OUT IN CONCENTRATION OF ITALIANS
     
Associated Press    June 06, 2002       
    
HAMMONTON, N.J. — The names on most of the businesses downtown end in a 
vowel. There are plenty of places to get a pizza or eggplant parmesan. And 
the biggest party here happens each July at the Feast of Mount Carmel.  
Hammonton is the U.S. town with the largest concentration of Italians, 
according to an analysis of data from the 2000 census.

More than 54 percent of the 12,604 residents in this town about 25 miles 
northwest of Atlantic City call themselves Italian. That is the highest 
concentration of any place in the nation with more than 1,000 people, just 
ahead of Johnston, R.I.; East Haven, Conn.; Rosetto, Pa.; and Frankfort, N.Y.

Hammonton has been this way for most of its history.

Gabriel Donio, publisher of the weekly Hammonton Gazette and author of a 
forthcoming book on the town's history, said Hammonton was settled in the 
1850s by New Englanders who were duped by property owners into believing 
there was already a thriving community there.

A few decades later, landowners duped Italians, many of them from Sicily, in 
the same way. Over a span of less than 30 years, most of the population of 
the Sicilian village of Gesso was transplanted to Hammonton.

The Sicilians found that vegetables and fruits they had grown in their 
homeland worked better in the sandy Pinelands soil than the heavier crops the 
New Englanders tried to cultivate. 

Their abundant blueberry crops led to the town's moniker as the "Blueberry 
Capital of the World."

"They're tethered to the land," said Donio, an Italian-American whose family 
has lived around Hammonton for 125 years.

Farms and once-abundant clothing factories provided plenty of jobs for 
Italians, who stopped entering Hammonton en masse not long after 1900.

Silvio Maione, 68, owns one of three tailor shops downtown, all of which are 
owned by Italians. 

He came to Hammonton from Naples 38 years ago to work in a garment factory.

It was easy to fit in in the new country. "Everybody spoke Italian then," 
Mainone said. "You see in the telephone book — they all have Italian names."

Restaurateur Trina Schipone came from heavily Italian South Philadelphia in 
1974. She figures 90 percent of the customers at her popular lunch spot are 
of Italian descent.

She said her customers have a cultural need for lunches of shells and peas, 
roasted pork sandwiches topped with provolone and broccoli rabe, and fish 
every Friday.

"Americans, they don't enjoy this kind of stuff," said Schipone, 59, meaning 
non-Italians. "They like a plain old ham and cheese sandwich or a greasy 
hamburger."