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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Newton
Newton, North Carolina and Vicinity
▶ Catawba County (28) ▶ Alexander County (8) ▶ Burke County (20) ▶ Caldwell County (7) ▶ Iredell County (22) ▶ Lincoln County (37)
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GEOGRAPHIC SORT
| On Southwest Boulevard (Business U.S. 321) at South College Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Southwest Boulevard. |
| | Coeducational, liberal arts. Affiliated with Evangelical & Reformed Church. Opened ½ mi. N., 1851. Moved to Salisbury, 1925, & enlarged. — — Map (db m156713) HM |
| 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 Northwest Boulevard (Business U.S. 321) at West 9th Street, on the right when traveling north on Northwest Boulevard. |
| | Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1897-1901; president of Catawba College, 1901-04;
newspaper editor. Home 3 blocks E. — — Map (db m156744) 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 from 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 State Highway 16 at W A Street, on the right when traveling south on State Highway 16. |
| | Superior Court judge; a founder of Catawba College; state senator & Confederate colonel. His home stood here. — — Map (db m152420) 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 Old Conover-Startown Road at West 7th Street, on the right when traveling north on Old Conover-Startown Road. |
| | Organized before 1771 as a union church by German settlers. Present building erected ca. 1820. — — Map (db m156745) 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 |
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