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Newton is located south of I-20 and U.S. Route 80 approximately 25 miles west of Meridian in south central Newton County. Potterchitto Creek flows past the west and north sides of the city.
Location of Newton County in Mississippi. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Newton County, Mississippi. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Newton County, Mississippi, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
Newton County was split off from the southern part of Neshoba County and organized on February 26, 1836. [3] The county is named for scientist Isaac Newton. [4] [5] The Battle of Newton's Station was fought in the county on April 24, 1863, during Grierson's Raid of the American Civil War.
Newton Knight (November 10, 1829 – February 16, 1922) was an American farmer, soldier, and Southern Unionist in Mississippi, best known as the leader of the Knight Company, a band of Confederate Army deserters who resisted the Confederacy during the Civil War.
The 1863 Battle of Newton's Station and Grierson's cavalry exploits through Mississippi between La Grange, Tennessee and Baton Rouge, Louisiana were the basis of the 1959 movie The Horse Soldiers, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne, William Holden and Constance Towers, and inspired by the earlier 1956 historical fiction novel by Harold ...
There are more than 1,400 sites distributed among all of Mississippi's 82 counties. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below), may be seen in an online map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates".
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Mississippi that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
Newton station in the USA is a historic railroad depot in Newton, Mississippi. It was located on the A & V (Alabama and Vicksburg) Railroad. It was built in 1904 (120 years ago) (), and later operated by the Illinois Central. [3] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990 as the Alabama and Vicksburg Railroad Depot. [1]