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Historian at New Rochelle event traces Latino roots to Antonio Valencia and highlights growing Hispanic community
Summary
At a Hispanic Heritage Month event at New Rochelle City Hall, local teacher Francisco Andres Sandoval Valencia traced the city's Latino migration history and credited Antonio Valencia with helping to bring the first wave of Mexican immigrants; he noted the 2020 census counts about 27,000 Latinos (roughly 33%).
At a Hispanic Heritage Month event at New Rochelle City Hall, social studies teacher Francisco Andres Sandoval Valencia presented a local history of Latino immigration and singled out one early immigrant, Antonio Valencia, as pivotal in bringing others to the city.
"My name is Francisco Andres Sandoval Valencia," he said as he opened his presentation, describing his upbringing in New Rochelle's West End and his work teaching local history to high school students. Sandoval said the West End, bordering Pelham and north of the Metro-North line, long served as a landing place for successive waves of immigrants, from 19th-century German and Italian…
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