Until the last decades, fishing was very important in the life of the town. The anglers lived in an area called 'inner town'. The sailors of the Tisza, ship builders, and the construction laborers who owned no land or only a small vineyard also lived there.

The first windmill was built in the first half of the 18th century in Hungary. The Holland type windmill spread around the 1790-1800 in Hungary. Most of them were situated in the Great Planes and between the Duna and Tisza.

Among the towns of the beginning of the 20th century, Szeged had the largest population living in homesteads surrounding the town. In 1930 over 45 000 people lived in 10 000 homesteads of 10-15 acres around Szeged. The homestead we present at our exhibition, the placement and characteristics of the buildings was significant at the turn of the 19-20th centuries. The premises of the house followed the room-kitchen-room-chamber order.