1910's, Photo Search
The Van Nuys Hotel and Restaurant next to the depot was built soon after the railroad station and was a popular restaurant in Newport. Men’s clubs met here for weekly luncheons, people went for Sunday dinners, and it was the only restaurant in Newport that...
1900s, Photo Search
The cotton wagons on Front Street wait while the cotton buyers move among them grading the fiber and deciding which bales to buy for their employers in northern mills. To the left is the old train depot where the buyers could have their newly purchase bales loaded up...
1900s, Photo Search
The newly constructed Jackson County Courthouse (with bell tower and cupola) stands at the corner of Third and Main Streets. The First Christian Church is the white building to the upper left of the photograph. The large building to the upper right is the Newport...
1920s, Photo Search
From Public Source.
1900s, Photo Search
From the Ray Hanley Collection.
1900s, Photo Search
These old soldiers are veterans of the Jackson Guards, a Confederate company raised in Jacksonport in May 1861 that served in the Virginia theater as Company G of the 1st Arkansas Infantry Regiment, CSA. The date they left was the day before the state of Arkansas...
