On U.S. 80 at Buckley Road, on the right when traveling east on U.S. 80. Reported missing.
On February 19, 1863, a train carrying Confederate soldiers and civilians left Meridian heading west. Near Hickory, the locomotive ran off the trestle and submerged the train in the Chunky River. A rescue effort was led by the First Battalion of . . . — — Map (db m215195) HM
On West Broad Street, on the right when traveling west.
Medgar Wiley Evers, born in Decatur July 2, 1925, was a graduate of Newton Vocational High School and Alcorn College. After serving in the military in WWII, he returned to Decatur and, along with his brother, Charles, attempted to register to vote . . . — — Map (db m51168) HM
On State Highway 15 at 7th Street, on the right when traveling north on State Highway 15.
During the Meridian Expedition, Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman ordered the XVI Corps to move east while he waited with one infantry regiment at Decatur Crossroads. As Sherman retired for the night, the regiment mistakenly left him unguarded. Seeing an . . . — — Map (db m51160) HM
On U.S. 80 east of Jefferson Street, on the right when traveling east.
So called in honor of "Old Hickory," Andrew Jackson. His name given to military road built, 1817-1820, connecting New Orleans with Nashville & passing through this location. — — Map (db m111026) HM
Near Good Hope Church Road, 1.6 miles south of State Route 503, on the left when traveling south.
Lynching in America
Over 6,500 African Americans were victims of racial terror lynching in the United
States between 1865 and 1950. Following the Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil
War, many white Americans remained committed to . . . — — Map (db m234969) HM
On Hickory Little Rock Road at Jessie Dean Road, on the right when traveling south on Hickory Little Rock Road.
Beulah Hubbard School was established on this site in 1929. The school was the consolidation of Beulah, Witt, Oakland, Rock Branch, Little Rock, Hebron, Greenland, Hopewell, Center Ridge, Duffee and Battlefield schools. The school’s name refers to . . . — — Map (db m179037) HM
On South Main Street at East First Street, on the right when traveling north on South Main Street.
In 1863, Willis R. Norman received a Confederate Government contract to construct a hospital in Newton. The hospital complex, which is said to have consisted of 7 hospital and commissary buildings, was built on this site. Approximately 1,000 . . . — — Map (db m77267) HM
On Northside Drive (U.S. 80), on the right when traveling west.
In this cemetery, which has been maintained by Doolittle family since antebellum times, are buried about 100 Confederate soldiers who died at military hospital during siege of Vicksburg. — — Map (db m51169) HM
Near South Main Street at East Railroad Street, on the left when traveling south.
Here at Newton Station, on April. 24, 1863, Federals under General Benjamin H. Grierson struck the Vicksburg-Meridian rail route, tore up tracks, & burned depot. — — Map (db m77265) HM
On East Church Street at Wood Street, on the left when traveling east on East Church Street.
Originally built for Marine M. Watkins, this one-story, center-hall-plan house was purchased in 1871 by Dr. J.С. McElroy, a physician and state representative. In 1891, Mrs. Bettie Russell Hoye, the widow of M.J.L. Hoye, a local merchant who . . . — — Map (db m138574) HM
On South Main Street at Cedar Street, on the right when traveling north on South Main Street.
Newton County has a dual claim to blues fame, first as the birthplace of several historical figures and later as the site of an important blues event, the Chunky Rhythm & Blues Festival. Newton County natives include record businessman H.C. Speir . . . — — Map (db m141357) HM