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Buckeye-Woodhill

  The  Buckeye-Woodhill  neighborhood (sometimes still referred to as "Woodland Hills" or "Lower Buckeye") is one half of the historic cultural epicenter of  Cleveland's Hungarian community  Buckeye-Shaker Square (my next run/post) or "Upper Buckeye" is the other. Together, the area is informally known as Buckeye-Woodland or Greater Buckeye. The area was originally part of the village of Newburgh. By 1880, it was home to one of the largest Hungarian populations in the U.S (10,000). By 1920, that number rose to 43,000 and featured s ix Hungarian-language newspapers, nearly a dozen churches, over 300 businesses, and 81 organizations. Many Hungarians began leaving the neighborhood for the suburbs after WWII with the exception of a wave of immigration in 1956 due to the Hungarian Revolution. The neighborhood began to experience decline in the 1960s as white flight, redlining and other common issues facing urban neighborhoods of that time set in. Today, the...