1960s, Photo Search
1966 – 1967 Class Picture of Branch High School in Newport
1900s, Photo Search
This postcard shows the St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railway bridge over the White River, three miles downstream from Newport. The tracks then proceeded through town along the bluff side of the river, protecting the rails from the frequent overflows in the...
1900s, Photo Search
A 1906 Sigma Chi party almost ended in disaster when the boat hit a snag, throwing the two young ladies on the roof, Irma Hooker and Jamie Irby, into the river. The newspaper account notes, “Nearly all the young men went to the rescue” and “the...
1900s, Photo Search
The paddleboat Sears loads lumber onto barges at the Jacksonport log yard in about 1900. All types of lumber – including cottonwood, gum, hickory, elm, oak, maple, ash, and cedar – were brought down from the Black, Current, and upper White Rivers to...
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...
