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...
1900s, Photo Search
This is thought to be T.D. Snetzer’s home, and it is typical of the Victorian architecture that was common in this period throughout Newport and the South. Note the Ionic columns, the octagonal tower, and the large porch. From Watson, Tim, and Elizabeth...
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...
1900s, Photo Search
The tennis club was a favorite diversion for some of the young ladies of Newport. Pictured here are, from left to right, (first row) Lucy Watson and Lottie Dill; (second row) Elizabeth “Lib” Brandenburg; (third row) Narcissa “Narcie” Phillips...
1900s, Photo Search
Built in 1896 and torn down in 1911, the yellow-brick Newport Free School was located between Third and Fourth Streets on Walnut Street. It was open to all white children in Jackson County. The county did not offer public education to its African American residents...
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