The picnic area on US 190 in Newton County is an early roadside park developed by the Texas Highway Department - now Texas Department of Transportation. This 1936 park accommodated motorists attending Texas Centennial events that year. It was . . . — — Map (db m136971) HM
This center-bearing swing bridge, completed in 1940, is only one of a few such highway bridges remaining in Texas. The bridge was the last major component constructed along Texas Highway 87, which was known as the "Hug-The-Coast-Highway" running . . . — — Map (db m172233) HM
Brothers Sebern (1809-1865), Allen (1814-1887) and John Woods and their families were living in Yalobusha County, Mississippi, in 1840. They traveled to the Republic of Texas with their parents, John (1785-1863) and Mary (b. 1790) Woods, in the . . . — — Map (db m290449) HM
By 1941, the U.S. military was painfully aware of its unpreparedness to combat the modern mechanized armies in Europe. To increase its combat effectiveness, the U.S. Army conducted the Louisiana maneuvers, which included 3,400 square miles of Texas. . . . — — Map (db m128588) HM
Patriarch of the Orange County Stark family, John T. Stark was born in Pebble [sic - Preble] County, Ohio, in 1821 and moved to East Texas in 1840. He settled in Newton County in the 1850s where he read law and ran a mercantile store. In 1861 . . . — — Map (db m141306) HM
In 1844, Georgia native William Graham Webb (1824-1902) immigrated to Texas and settled in La Grange. Soon after his arrival in Texas, Webb enlisted as a private during the U.S. - Mexico War, where he joined Jack Coffee Hays' Regiment of the Texas . . . — — Map (db m183175) HM
Supply and military center in the Civil War. Target area for Federals trying to move up the Sabine or across Louisiana and take Texas. Confederates built breastworks and maintained arsenal at Burkeville. Major supply route, "The Old Beef Trail", . . . — — Map (db m202003) HM
Thomas and Charlotte Guthrie Tanner moved to Mexican Texas in 1827 or 1828. They purchased six hundred acres on McGraw Creek from I.R. Williams for six hundred dollars in 1849.
When Thomas Tanner died in 1882, he was buried on a hill . . . — — Map (db m290440) HM
As a co-founder of the Shankleville community, Stephen McBride worked to improve the lives of fellow African Americans. Stephen was born a slave in Texas in 1834. After emancipation, he and Jim Shankle bought land in northern Newton County, forming . . . — — Map (db m290444) HM
The family of John H. and Margaret Ford came to Texas prior to 1880. Establishing farms and homes, the family helped settle this area of Newton County. A community cemetery was begun on the land of J. D. and Ida J. Ford. Although the cemetery . . . — — Map (db m137262) HM
To create jobs and bring county services nearer to residents of this area, Newton County officials provided materials and the U.S. Works Progress Administration (WPA) the funds to pay laborers to construct this building in 1940-41. Named for Harrier . . . — — Map (db m107227) HM
The home of several leading Newton County businessmen, this house was constructed in 1912 by turpentine producer L. M. Autrey. In 1918 he sold it to N. A. Dawson, a road contractor. From 1923 to 1979 it was the home of lumberman and civic leader . . . — — Map (db m137041) HM
The earliest record of this congregation dates to 1861, when the Newton Baptist Church with a membership of about 35 was accepted into the Bethlehem Association. The first known pastor was the Rev. R.F. Fancher. Baptisms were held in Caney Creek. . . . — — Map (db m290456) HM
Chartered February 26, 1880, by 36 incorporators; named for Leon Blum, Galveston merchant, largest holder in $20,000 capital stock - $5 per share. First directors were: R.J. Brailsford, H.J. Casey, W.W. Downs, W.A. Droddy, T.W. Ford, M.D. Hines; . . . — — Map (db m290434) HM
Named for Jim and Winnie Shankle, known as first Newton County Blacks to buy land and become local leaders after gaining freedom by emancipation.
Both were born in slavery: Jim in 1811, Winnie in 1814. After Winnie and her three children were . . . — — Map (db m290446) HM
Neosho is named from the Osage Indian word, Ni-u-zhu (Main River). Settled about 1833 near 3 large springs, Neosho became the seat of Newton County, 1839. Upon the Ozark tableland prairies of the area, an "Eden of Fertility," settlers from many . . . — — Map (db m248636) HM
Located in the easternmost county of Texas, this town was little more than a forest of oaks and beeches when laid out in 1853. Due to its central location, it was elected county seat the same year, winning over Burkeville, the former county seat. . . . — — Map (db m128587) HM
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