Hungarian Settlement

The settlers called their community Árpádhon, for Árpád, the leader of the Hungarian tribes, with the suffix hon meaning home. Between 1896 and 1920 hundreds of Hungarian immigrants came: eleven families in 1900, about forty in 1908, 65 in 1910 and roughly two hundred by 1920, an estimated 350 families at the peak, then the largest rural Hungarian settlement in the United States. In 1909 Joseph Juhasz and his wife gave twenty acres for St. Margaret Catholic Church. The old Hungarian Settlement School, on the National Register since 2001, became a museum in 2017.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tickfaw State Park — 7.5 mi
  A floodplain park on the Tickfaw River, with cypress-tupelo swamp, bottomland hardwoods and about 4.75 miles of trails and boardwalks, plus a nature center with an 800-gallon river aquarium.

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