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The Newport Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Newport and Oliver Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. [1]
Newport appears prominently on a 1578 parish map of Pembrokeshire, [5] and is a former marcher borough. George Owen of Henllys, in 1603, described it as one of five Pembrokeshire boroughs overseen by a portreeve. [6] It retains some of the borough customs such as electing a mayor, who beats the bounds on horseback every August.
Newport is a borough in Perry County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,487 at the 2020 census. [ 4 ] It is part of the Harrisburg – Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Pembrokeshire is the fifth-largest county in Wales, but has more scheduled monuments (526) than any except Powys. This gives it an extremely high density of monuments, with 33.4 per 100 km 2 . (Only the tiny county boroughs of Newport and Merthyr Tydfil have a higher density).
As of the census [4] of 2000, there were 493 people, 201 households, and 144 families residing in the township. The population density was 60.1 inhabitants per square mile (23.2/km 2).
An old map of Newport Township. Newport was incorporated as a township in 1790. It is one of the original townships in Luzerne County. The municipality derives its name from Newport, Rhode Island. The first settlement in modern-day Newport Township was established by Major Prince Alden in 1772.
The Bridge in Newport Borough is a historic bridge located at Newport in Perry County, Pennsylvania. It is an 80-foot-long (24 m) multi-span stone arch bridge. It was built in 1929 and crosses Little Buffalo Creek. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1]
It covers an area of about 4 ha, and is about 400 m x 150 m in extent. The lower slopes of Carningli are covered with traces of Bronze Age settlement (Pearson 2001) and so some features of the hillfort may be even older. Although not one of the largest fortified sites in Wales, it is certainly one of the most complex, incorporating a series of ...