Youngstown, Ohio, never developed a centralized little Italy. Instead, the city's mostly southern Italian settlers chose to live near the foundries, rail yards, and steel mills where Germans, Spaniards, Welsh, Slavs, Irish, African American, and others also called home.

Of these the two most iconic neighborhoods that boasted large Italian populations were Brier Hill, for a long time an independent village, and Smoky Hollow, close to Youngstown's downtown.

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