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English: This is a locator map showing Newport County in Rhode Island. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006:
English: Map showing the location of Newport (red) and Newport County (pink) within the state of Rhode Island, USA. This file was derived from: Municipalities of Rhode Island.svg Date
Counties of Alabama Alabama counties (clickable map) Location State of Alabama Number 67 Populations Greatest: 662,895 (Jefferson) Least: 7,341 (Greene) Average: 76,246 (2023) Areas Largest: 1,590 sq mi (4,100 km 2) (Baldwin) Smallest: 535 sq mi (1,390 km 2) (Etowah) Average: 782 sq mi (2,030 km 2) Government County government Subdivisions cities, towns, unincorporated communities, census ...
Newport County was constituted on June 22, 1703, as one of the two original counties of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. As originally established, Newport County consisted of four towns: Portsmouth, Newport, Jamestown, and New Shoreham. In 1746–47, two towns, Little Compton and Tiverton, were acquired from Massachusetts.
The county seat, Monroeville, is the home of two notable 20th-century authors, Truman Capote and Nelle Harper Lee, who were childhood neighbors. The novelist Mark Childress and journalist Cynthia Tucker are also Monroe County natives. In 1997 the Alabama Legislature designated Monroeville and Monroe County as the "Literary Capital of Alabama".
English: This is a locator map showing Monroe County in Alabama. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006: Source:
Old Monroe County Courthouse, the model for the courthouse used in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird Author Harper Lee was born and raised in Monroeville. Her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird , which received the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction , [ 12 ] explored the fictional town of Maycomb, inspired by her hometown. [ 13 ]
Unincorporated communities in Monroe County, Alabama (20 P) This page was last edited on 4 April 2013, at 16:31 (UTC). Text is ...