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...
1890s, Photo Search
Berry Best’s brother and sister-in-law Ira and Jewel Best owned a popular restaurant and saloon at the corner of Walnut and Front Streets. The kitchen help is pictured here standing outside with Ira’s domesticated wolves. The man in the dark hat in the...
1880s, Photo Search
This postcard shows walnut logs being loaded onto a barge somewhere near Newport. They were on their way to a sawmill downriver – perhaps the Empie Lumber Mill in Newport, where they would be cut and planed into boards, studs or shingles – but they...
