Showing posts with label old history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label old history. Show all posts

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Kossuthville's Former Historian













Mr. and Mrs. Nemeth


When I first started living out here in K-ville we were and still are living on Nemeth St. and at the time I had no idea that a Mr. Calvin Nemeth was the son of Joseph Nemeth and that our Street was named after him (Joseph) .
 Calvin had been living in the block house on the corner of Nemeth and 542 .We knew him as simply Mr. Nemeth and I did not know there was lots of history behind his life until after my husband Royce and I both became involved with the Community .
But Mr. Nemeth had passed away a year or 2 before that, if I had known I was going to be assigned as Histroian for the community I would have paid more attention to what was happening to his estate. His son lived next door and his daughter lived in Lakeland .It was a couple years later that I found out that his daughter Debbie had sent Hungarian History of Kossuthville to the Hungarian Foundation in Plant City .
I asked about it when I met her , she said she could not read it and did not know anyone who could, so she donated it to them. It was all written in Hungarian !! Her Grandfather Joseph wrote in it everyday of his life until he passed away .I would love to get a hold of it in English.
 However there was some history she could share with me that her father kept over the years himself ,and I plan to share some of that, but a little at a time .

Thursday, February 16, 2012

First Newspaper Clipping We saw of Kossuthville

   This is the one we remember seeing  back in the 90's that was in the news paper .I had saved it for a long time, but then misplaced it . I got this copy from the Community Center and then another from Debbie Nemeth Bracewell.Grand daughter to Jospeh Nemeth the founder of Kossuthville ,Florida.
 It was amazing the plans they had for this small community that never happened . I heard stories that they planned for it to be like any small town with post office ,train station, park and etc.
There was even a drawing showing where they wanted the center of town to be and that was one the corners of  Rene and Summer Streets .I have the drawing on our display board that I put out every year during the Holiday Dinner .
Later I will make a copy of this article so it can be read by all .
There is lots more to tell and I will post more later.
If anyone has any early history to share with me please leave a comment ,your name and e-mail so we can talk about it ,Thank you. Cheryl  Hartzog ,Historian of Kossuthville ,Florida