1930s
Obviously captured on a Saturday, this image shows the throngs of people who collected on Front Street in downtown Newport every weekend as the folks from the country came into town to do their shopping. One old-timer remembers rushing downtown as a teenager to get a...
1900s, Photo Search
This postcard was printed in Germany and sold in I.D. Price’s bookstore on Newport’s Front Street in 1907. It features a view of the west end of Front Street, facing the railroad and the river. The city fathers were already using mussel shells, abundant...
1880s, Photo Search
This photograph of the Remmel Brothers Lumber Company is one of the earliest images of downtown Newport. Harmon Remmel and his brother Augustus came to Jackson County from New York in 1874 and made a fortune in the lumber business, capitalizing on the depressed...
1890s, Photo Search
In the severe ice storm of 1898, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at the corner of Laurel and Second Streets is shown on a very cold day. This weather was unusual enough in the southern latitudes of Newport that the men had not purchased heavy overcoats. From...
1880s, Photo Search
In 1884, the White River rose over its banks, creating this overflow in the downtown. Handwritten on the back of this photograph is this note: “Newport, Ark., Hazel Street, looking from Front Street towards Third Street. In 1885, Newport’s town council...
