Sicilian emigration to the US then grew substantially in the period starting in the 1880s and in 1906 as many as a 100,000 Sicilians emigrated to the US .
The first Sicilians arrived in what is now the United States in the seventeenth century as explorers and missionaries .
Sicilian emigration to the United States then grew substantially in the period starting in the 1880s and in 1906 as many as a 100,000 Sicilians emigrated to the United States .
The first Sicilians arrived in what is now the United States in the seventeenth century as explorers and missionaries .