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We would like to provide the residents of  Newton  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Newton Home page. The Newton Home page provides as much information as possible on Newton. Knowing Newton’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Newton’s Home page, you will also find Newton’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Newton has a population of 2249. 47.3% of Newton’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.7 are female. 41.3% of Newton is married and 63.8% own their own home. Household median income in Newton is $33,077, and the individual median income is $18,945. Newton’s Ethnic is the following: White(68.7%), Black(28.9%), Hispanic(7.2%), Multiple(1.6%), Native(0.5%), Asian(0.3%).


Both Newton County and its county seat, Newton, were named after John Newton, a supposed hero of the American Revolutionary War. However, John Newton's heroics are said to be a product of Parson Weems, who also fictionalized the story of George Washington and the cherry tree. In 1853, disputes led to the building of a courthouse and town in the county's geographical center instead of in Burkeville, a community 11 miles north northeast of Newton.


A second courthouse in Newton, a Second Empire style structure, was built in 1902–1903 with bricks from nearby Caney Creek, according to a Texas Historical Commission marker. The town was incorporated in 1935 and remains the only incorporated city in the county. The town's public school began when the W.H.


Ford Male and Female College was chartered in 1889. The site of the college later became the Powell Hotel and now serves as a museum and houses the city's chamber of commerce. The growth of the city during the first half of the 20th century was largely due to the dominant timber industry in East Texas.


The town had at least one newspaper prior to 1920s. The county courthouse, a focal point of a city square that featured extensive Christmas lighting in the early 1990s, was severely damaged by a fire in August 2000. Various funding and other problems pushed back the timeframe for the restoration of the interior for years.


The historic building finally reopened in December 2012.Although almost 80 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, Newton suffered extensive damage in September 2005 from Hurricane Rita. The National Weather Service estimated wind gusts in the vicinity of Newton to be between 80 mph to 100 mph. Some residents were without electricity for one month.


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