Near Stallings Street Northwest at Hunter Avenue Northwest, on the right when traveling west.
Can you imagine living and growing up at the jail? When Newton County completed its new jail in 1901, the front half had been designed as a home for the sheriff or a staff member and his family, an arrangement typical of this period. The sheriff was . . . — — Map (db m197740) HM
On Monticello Street SW south of Clark Street SW, on the left when traveling south.
On Friday, July 22, 1864, while the Battle of Atlanta raged about 25 miles to the west, Union Brigadier General Kenner Garrard and about 3,500 cavalrymen were in Covington. They had been ordered by Major General William T. Sherman to disrupt the . . . — — Map (db m103344) HM
On Washington Street (Georgia Route 81) 0.1 miles east of Lee Street SW, on the left when traveling east.
On July 22, 1864, Union Cavalry from Wilder's and Minty's Brigades, armed with Spencer repeating rifles, entered Covington under orders of General Kenner Garrard. As the Battle of Atlanta raged to the west, Covington was unprotected by Confederate . . . — — Map (db m14989) HM
On Unnamed Road 0.3 miles east of Rock Eagle Road, on the left when traveling east.
G.C. Adams, leading educator in Georgia, was born in Newton County in 1868. He became Newton County School Superintendent in 1902, after several years of teaching. While Superintendent he worked to consolidate the county schools, a pioneer . . . — — Map (db m34597) HM
On East Colorado Street at North Madison Street, on the left when traveling east on East Colorado Street.
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
Near North Main Street (Georgia Route 1) north of Wardlaw Street.
The Marsh House was built by Spencer Stewart Marsh about 1836. Mr. Marsh was born in Chatham County, North Carolina, on November 25, 1799, and was the son of William Marsh, a soldier in the American Revolution for whom the local William Marsh . . . — — Map (db m82761) HM
On Monticello Street SW at Clark Street SW, on the right when traveling south on Monticello Street SW.
In Loving and Grateful Memory of Those Citizens of Newton County Who Gave Their Lives In The Defense Of Our Country
{Honor Roll of World War I, II, Korean War, Vietnam & Gulf War dead of Newton County, Georgia} — — Map (db m103366) WM
On Georgia Route 36 at Fincher Circle, on the right when traveling north on Georgia Route 36.
Red Oak Church was established between 1803, when the Indians left this area, and late 1821, when Newton County was formed. The church grounds originally contained 4 acres, including the spring behind the church. The first building, between the . . . — — Map (db m24383) HM
On U.S. 278 at Old Social Circle Road, on the right when traveling west on U.S. 278.
Home. Store. Courthouse. Stagecoach stop. Post office. Temperance Lodge. Each name describes Brick Store at some time in its long history. The building, constructed as the residence of Martin Kolb, sometime before 1822, still stands in northeast . . . — — Map (db m265086) HM
On Unnamed Park Road 0.2 miles south of Newton Factory Bridge Road, in the median.
This area represents one of Georgia’s earliest experiences in advanced water-powered industrialization technologically unsurpassed in the U.S.
Archaeological remains of 5 mills ranging from large textile factories to small grist mills exist . . . — — Map (db m34594) HM
On U.S. 278 at Old Social Circle Road, on the right when traveling west on U.S. 278.
The General Store and residence of Martin Kolb was named by the Georgia General Assembly as the temporary meeting place for elections and courts of the newly formed Newton County.
The first justices of the inferior court were George . . . — — Map (db m34543) HM
On County Road 2290 0.8 miles north of Little Oak Road (County Road 2238), on the right when traveling north.
A veteran of the War of 1812, Major William Burt Allred and his wife, Jane O. Park Allred, moved from Newton County, GA to Pike County, AL in 1839. Construction began on their new home in 1840 and was completed in 1843. The home is one of the . . . — — Map (db m72056) HM
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* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
