The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Newtown was platted in 1858. A post office called Newtown has been in operation since 1887.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Newtown’s history is told.
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No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
📷 Add from your albumNational Register of Historic Places
Nothing in Newtown is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Newtown has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Leo Ellis Post #22, American Legion Building in Princeton, 13.4 miles away.
Newtown and the nearest listed places
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Closest to Newtown
Leo Ellis Post #22, American Legion BuildingPrinceton · Building13.4miCamp Ground Church and CemeteryOsgood · Building13.7mi
Quincy, Omaha and Kansas City Railroad Office BuildingMilan · Late Nineteenth Century Commercial Building16.2mi
Milan Railroad DepotMilan · Standardized Railroad Depot16.5miHenry CemeteryHumphreys · Site18.4mi
Quincy, Omaha and Kansas City Railroad Office BuildingMilan · Late Nineteenth Century Commercial Building16.2miMilan Railroad DepotMilan · Standardized Railroad Depot16.5miHenry CemeteryHumphreys · Site18.4miHow a place gets listed
1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Leo Ellis Post #22, American Legion Building’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Newtown?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Newtown’s story, or a memory of it.
📷 Add a photo of an old placeNational Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.