On North Main Avenue (State Highway 16) at East 1st Street, on the left when traveling south on North Main Avenue.
(front)
C.S.A.
To the Confederate Soldiers of Catawba County 1861-65
Confederate Heroes
(side)
Full Companies Sent Out
Co. A. 12 Reg.
Co. F. 23 Reg.
Co. C. 28 Reg.
Co. E. 32 Reg.
Co. E. 57 Reg.
Co. F. 32 Reg. . . . — — Map (db m156720) WM
On South Main Street (State Highway 16) at East A Street, on the right when traveling north on South Main Street.
"That freedom and justice might prevail, these Catawbans died" 1917-1918 James Russell Boggs · William A. Bolick · Sgt. Theodore P. Bonner · Adolphus G. Cansler · Thaddius C. Carpenter · Frank E. Cline · Henry Dameron · George R. Davis · Fred . . . — — Map (db m156719) WM
On East D Street (State Road 10/16) at South Ervin Avenue, on the right when traveling west on East D Street.
African-American high school grew out of an
1899 one-room schoolhouse. In 1924 the school
was enlarged and named Snow Hill Graded
School. Grades 8 & 9 were added in 1934, and
it became a full high school in 1936, renamed
Central High School. In . . . — — Map (db m240701) HM
On State Highway 16 at W A Street, on the right when traveling south on State Highway 16.
On a Civil War raid through Western North Carolina by Gen. George Stoneman's U.S. Cavalry troops commanded by Col. William J. Palmer passed through Newton on April 17, 1865, burned the Confederate Commissary depot and the county jail, and shot and . . . — — Map (db m152421) HM
On South College Avenue, 0.1 miles north of East Herman Street, on the left when traveling north.
Secretary of Interior, 1893-1896, Governor of Georgia, United States Senator, was born, 1855 at Catawba College, then located at this point. — — Map (db m156714) HM
On Old Conover-Startown Road, 0.1 miles West 7th Street, on the right when traveling north.
This tablet is dedicated to the Glory of God and the commemorate the unbroken record of the preaching of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ on or near this site since 1757 A.D. This church, known as Old St. Paul's Church, first known as "Dutch . . . — — Map (db m156757) HM
On East A Street at North College Avenue, on the right when traveling west on East A Street.
Beneath this marker is the
"Old Court House Well"
Dug 1842 Sealed 1908
During those years it was the
public water supply for Newton — — Map (db m156717) HM
On North College Avenue at East A Street, on the left when traveling north on North College Avenue.
A tribute to Mathias Barringer, Lipsicom Adam, - Grundt, - Haas, - Wilson, and another, who were massacred on John's River in Gen. Rutherford's "forced march" against the Cherokees in 1776, and to Philip Fry who alone escaped, and to Conrad Tippong, . . . — — Map (db m156715) HM WM
On Southwest Boulevard (Business U.S. 321) 0.1 miles south of Radio Station Road (North Carolina Road 1154), on the right when traveling south.
Judge of United States
District Court, 1949-1978,
NC Superior Court Judge,
1931-1949, first chairman
of NC Probation Commission
and WWI veteran.
Home stands 100 yards east. — — Map (db m240664) HM
On Startown Road (State Road 1005) at Empire Street, on the right when traveling south on Startown Road.
Founded 1904. First graded
school in what is now City
of Newton. From 1914 to 1931
was site of Startown Farm Life
School, an innovative state-supported
high school integrating
agriculture and home economics
in curriculum. Continues as
an . . . — — Map (db m240666) HM
