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Hungarian Colony
Georgia Historical
Marker
Marker Transcription
In 1888, three wine-making communities
were founded here on some 2000 acres. A local land developer, Ralph L.
Spencer, invited some 200 hundred Hungarian wine-making families to
settle in this region. They named their large community BUDAPEST, in
honor of the capital of Hungary. The village of TOKAJ recalled the
famous wine-making region of Hungary and NYITRA was named after an
ancient fort in the northern region of their homeland. Homes, streets,
shops, a school, a Catholic church and a cemetery & other municipal facilities were
built.
Hungarian Colony
Georgia Historical Marker 071-3
[click
to enlarge]
US 78, .3 mile west of Waco just west of Waco School
Road.
Image:
Jody McKim 2002
More Reading
& External Links:
Tallapoosa, Ga. 1895, Index Map
"Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps"
Haralson County Historical Society
President: Karen Higgins
PO Box 585, Buchanan, GA 30113-0585
770-646-3369
Haralson County Chamber of Commerce
Tourism Coordinator: LoraLee Casey
Our
Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic
Church
Carrollton, GA
The Colonization of Tallapoosa
EXTRA . . .
West of Tallapoosa, just over the
Georgia line in Alabama is a town once knows as
Zidonia. Ralph
Spencer changed this
name to Fruithurst,
where be once again
began vineyards.
It is said that his
translator George Grunik
and the Budapest Priest
Francis Janishek
accompanied him and
their names also appear
on documents forming
these fruit companies.
See:
Fruithurst, AL. |
