[3] Újházi hoped to colonize the area with German-speaking Hungarians fleeing the revolution in Hungary.

The New Buda post office opened that fall, with Újházi listed as postmaster.

The Hungarians' "experience managing developed estates in Hungary was of little help in breaking prairie soil or in the use of survival techniques until the first crops came in.

The Ausgleich of 1867 had granted amnesty to the Hungarians, and many of them returned to Austria-Hungary, while others fought in the American Civil War.

By 1875, the New Buda schoolhouse was abandoned; Ignác Hainer, the last postmaster, recommended the closure of the post office in 1880.