Budapest, Georgia

Budapest is a small unincorporated community in Haralson County in the U.S. state of Georgia.

[3] In 1882, real-estate developer Ralph L. Spencer of Essex, Connecticut, invited 200 Hungarian wine-making families then employed in the mining industry in Pennsylvania to settle on 2,000 acres (8.1 km2) of land at this site.

Tokaj was founded to satisfy the desire of brothers Jacob and Paul Estavanko for lots larger than 10 acres (40,000 m2).

The colony quickly flourished into a town with sixty buildings, including a Catholic church, stores and a post office.

The Estavanko family remained in Haralson County after the demise of the wine industry, and a local road is named after them.