Why thank you Marika! cheryl -------------------------------------------------- From: <MLPecsi@aol.com> Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2010 9:42 AM To: <hungary@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [HUNGARY] Hungary Has Lost Millions 1905 (followup) > Cheryl, thank you for this most interesting article. > Here is some information on Sauk City, Wisconsin today. > > > It appears to be the oldest incorporated village in the state and > features > today: > > Halasz Manor: Charles Halasz Home > Charles Halasz, cousin of Agoston Haraszthy, built this home in 1861. He > married Emma Rendtorff and founded what became the Lachmund Lumber > Company. > This house remained in the family until 1944, one of the oldest homes in > the village of Sauk City. It is now three apartments on Water Street. > > The emigration to America has set in only since the > eighteenth century, and in 1841 the Hungarians founded in the state of > Wisconsin, the colony of Harasztyfaulu, which now, as Sauk City, has long > lost > all trace of Magyar character. (article written in Feb. 1905) > > It appears the Freethinkers from Germany gained some influence in the > village of Sauk City, coming here in 1852 and having a German language > curriculum until WW1 1917. > > The following hyperlinks are better copy-pasted for viewing: > > Their historical society features a Halasz Manor. > _http://www.saukcity.net/historicregistry.htm#halasz_ > (http://www.saukcity.net/historicregistry.htm#halasz) > > History features: The oldest incorporated village in Wisconsin. > _http://www.saukcity.net/historicpreservation.htm_ > (http://www.saukcity.net/historicpreservation.htm) > > > > Marika > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > HUNGARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >