Hostyn, Texas

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Hostyn is an unincorporated community in central Fayette County, Texas, United States.

It was settled by Czech settlers and named after Hostýn, a hill in Moravia, Czech Republic.

The name was a play on words, now an old family joke, intended on thwarting the annual visit of the town founders' mother-in-law.[ citation needed ]

29°50′45″N96°55′11″W / 29.84583°N 96.91972°W / 29.84583; -96.91972


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