1900s, Photo Search
This postcard shows a trainload of cotton being readied to ship out of Newport. The railroads would soon surpass the steamboats as carriers of the area’s farm crops, and the age of the steamboat on the South’s inland waterways would be gone with the wind....
1890s, Photo Search
The hanging of the Olyphant train robbers on the grounds of the new Jackson County Courthouse was one of the most exciting events in Newport in 1894. This photograph shows one of the robbers speaking his last words before being hooded and hanged. The local...
1900s, Photo Search
From the Butler Center Collection.
