1900s, Photo Search
The steamboat Grand docks at either Jacksonport or Newport about 1903. It seems to be coming upriver since the deck is loaded with boxes and buckets instead of bales of cotton. The containers are most likely filled with salt, sugar, coffee, and even oysters, and the...
1900s, Photo Search
Tuckerman lies 10 miles north of Newport, and it derived much of its early wealth from the timber industry as well as the production of cotton. Here, a lumberyard stands close to the railroad tracks since Tuckerman is not situated on the river. This photograph was...
1900s, Photo Search
The paddleboat Sears loads lumber onto barges at the Jacksonport log yard in about 1900. All types of lumber – including cottonwood, gum, hickory, elm, oak, maple, ash, and cedar – were brought down from the Black, Current, and upper White Rivers to...
1900s, Photo Search
These unnamed railroad workers show by their faces and clothing that they had hard lives. They worked up and down the rails repairing tiles, replacing spikes, and clearing the track of debris. From Watson, Tim, and Elizabeth Jacoway. Newport and Jackson County....
1900s, Photo Search
Mrs. O.D. Watson and Mrs. Charles Wilmans sponsored this Tom Thumb wedding as a benefit for the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The performance was in the Newport Opera House. This photograph was taken in front of the Brandenburg house on the southwest corner...
1900s, Photo Search
Founded by Miss Jim Watson (top left), the daughter of Confederate general James Fleming Fagan, the Junior Chapter of the Southern Memorial Association (United Daughters of the Confederacy) poses in 1903 on the porch of the Watson home at Second and Elm Streets in...
