Hungarian Library: New Brunswick, New Jersey

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The American Hungarian Foundation was founded in 1955 in New Brunswick, New Jersey; in 1989 they opened the Hungarian Heritage Center, designed by Laszlo Papp, board member of the Foundation at the time. The Foundation’s origin was in promoting Hungarian Studies at Elmhurst College, and has morphed into the institution it is today with the slogan “Collect, Conserve, Celebrate”.

The Hungarian Heritage Center contains a museum, archive facility, and a significant library. Equipped with over 60,000 books, monographs, and historical records the New Brunswick Hungarian library works as an affiliate of the Rutgers University library. The texts housed here concentrate on the history of Hungarian-American relations, along with the contributions of Hungarian-Americans and their descendants, spanning back to the colonial times.

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Rare books from the fifteenth century are among the collection as well as museum-quality maps, and various periodicals, videos, recordings, cassettes, CDs, DVDs, and archival materials. While all published materials are catalogued online, the library is in the process of digitizing their archive and library.

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Kossuthville – Florida

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Kossuthville, or “K-ville” as the locals have nicknamed it, in Florida, is one of a handful of Kossuthville’s throughout the USA. This particular town came into existence when Hungarians from the Northeast of the US bought a plot of land in Polk County, Florida.

In the 1920s, these Hungarian immigrants were sold on the idea of a Floridian paradise. East of Lakeland, they settled in the rural, inland region of the state. Joseph Nemeth was the founder of this community. Originally, residents worked mainly in agriculture, farming various vegetables along with sugar cane.

The town was home to a restaurant by the name of the “Hungarian Inn”, but it has since been destroyed and a playground was built in its place. The original founders of the community, Joseph Nemeth and his family, had big plans for the town, though most of them were not brought to fruition during his lifetime. Not much is left to evidence the Hungarian roots of the town, but the name still proudly bears tribute to its ancestry.