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MAP	More Detail	Feature Name	Latitude	Longitude	Comments
		Adsul	303834N	0935034W	The Adams-Sullivan Lumber Company built a sawmill here in 1906. The name was a combination of the names... Adams & Sullivan. It once bosted as having a population of over 500 citizens but was abandoned about 1910.
		Belgrade	304108N	0933948W	First known as Biloxi, the name was given by indians, perhaps of the Biloxi tribe. Later called Belgrade, it might have been named for the Serbian capital & river port. Belgrade was the first white settlement in what was to become Newton County. A post office (Biloxi) opened Dec. 17, 1847 - Sep. 24, 1852; & Dec. 13, 1853-Sep. 1, 1860, when the name was changed to Belgrade and was open until Nov. 5, 1866. Opened again from Oct. 27, 1879-Apr. 14, 1906 & Jan. 13, 1910 until 1936.
		Bevil's Ferry	see: Toledo
		Bevil's Settlement
		Biloxi			also see: Belgrade
		Bleakwood	304132N	0934920W
		Bon Wier	304423N	0933835W	Named for two officials of the Kirby Lumber...B. R. Bonner and R. W. Wier. Post office opened Dec. 1, 1906.
		Buckhorn	304559N	0934053W
		Burkeville	305959N	0934004W	Once the county seat of Newton County. Burkeville has been a on-again...off-again...county seat due to several disputes. It was so named in 1848, but 5 years later, after a land title dispute, the county seat was moved to what was thought to be the geographical center of Newton County and the town of Newton was established. In 1855 the county seat was once again moved to Burkeville, but in 1856 the latest dispute was settled and the county seat was once again moved to Newton.
		Burr's Ferry
		Call			A post office was established at Call on July 25, 1896.
		Camptown			Near Deweyville & near Sabine River. Lumbering settlement. Abandoned in 1940's.
		Carr
		Cotland			Post office established here ca 1850.
		Devil's Pocket			(not a town, but area reference)
		Deweyville	301751N	0934436W
		Farrsville / Farr's Mill	305900N	0934826W	Originally called Farr's Mill, and site of water mill, later a gin mill, sawmills and a gristmill. Once the site of a post office, but it was discontinued in 1948.
		Fawil	304334N	0934227W	5 miles SW of Bon Weir. Sawmill site, built 1906 by F. A. Wilson.
		Griggs	see: Stringtown
		Harrells	303955N	0934950W
		Hartburg	301527N	0934552W
		Haden's Ferry	see: Toledo
		Holly Springs			(now Jasper Co.)
		Howards / Howard's Switch	304455N	0934702W	Sawmill site owned by Thad Howard & Charles Mixon ca 1906.
		Indian Hills	310158N	0934533W
		Jacks			Founded as Columbia in 1839. Located east of Burkeville on Sabine River.
		Jamestown	305522N	0934934W
		Kerrdale
		Klondike	see: Trotti
		Laurel
		Lees's Mill			Founded ca 1871. First known as Livina. Named changed in 1879 when James Lee purchased millsite.
		Liberty	305523N	0934321W
		Logtown			Founded ca 1910
		Makeup			A lumbering site established on the Sabine-Neches Railroad around 1919.
		Mattox	305959N	0934624W
		Mayflower	310524N	0934325W	John Wells submitted this name for a post office because of blooming flowers at this sight. The area was first called Surveyville or The Survey. This was the site of the first known surveying in the county on the William Williams league. A post office with the name of Surveyville was open from Sept. 19, 1890-Feb. 10, 1892 & from June 11, 1895-Nov. 2, 1898. It was known as Mayflower post office from Oct. 26, 1912 & discontinued in 1953.
		Neblett's Bluff			ca 1860'a & 1870's on Sabine River.
		New Columbia			also see: Jacks
		Newton (County Seat)	305054N	0934526W	County Seat of Newton County, Tx since 1856. Newton was named for Corporal John Newton, who served under General Francis Marion during the Revolutionary War.
		Palmetto			7 miles NW of Newton. Established in 1916 as a logging camp of the Palmetto Lumber Company.
		Pine Grove	304615N	0934835W
		Pineknot			Located between Burkeville & Toledo Bend off FM Rd. 692 in the "Survey" area.
		Princeton
		Quicksand			Early homesteaders named a creek Quicksand, after discovering quicksand there. The nearby community assumed the designation. A post office by that name existed for a very short period...Jun 19, 1871-Jul 18, 1871. Quicksand creek is about four miles north of the present town of Newton and the site was once (1847) selected to be the county seat.
		Rainbow	see: Stringtown		Post Office
		Ruliff	301626N	0934357W
		Salem / New Salem	303232N	0934604W	Ferry crossing & riverport on Sabine River in the 1830's & 1840's. The town was later moved downstream.
		Sandjack	303822N	0934227W
		Scrapping Valley	310913N	0935130W	Supposedly around 1900, a young lady gave her boyfriend a thrashing after a singing school. He apparently had torn up a picture of her. The community has since been known by this colorful name.
		Shankleville Shanklerville	305812N	0934224W
		Simmonsville	305737N	0933756W
		Snell's
		Spear's Chapel
		Stringtown	305428N	0933730W	Stringtown had a post office named Rainbow, after an old county road which went through the community. The community was also called Griggs, after a common surname among local residents.
		Survey Surveyville	see: Mayflower
		Sycamore
		Toledo	311027N	0933340W	There was a post office at a place known as Toledo from Jul. 17, 1873 to Sep. 11, 1877. It was named for settlers who were from Toledo, Ohio. Also known as Bevil's Ferry & Haden's Ferry
		Trotti			Also known as Klondike. Established in 1898.
		Trout Creek	303702N	0934833W
		Weeks Settlement	310508N	0935017W
		Wiergate	305958N	0934227W	Named for Robert W. & T. P. Wier, the brothers who owned Wier Long Leaf Lumber Company and built a mill at this site. It once had swimming pools, a movie theater and a recreation center and a population of over 2500 people.
		Wihan
		Woodmyer			Logging camp established in 1919. Names for J. F. Woods & C. P. Myer.
		Wrightman

* Some of the "place names"of the smaller or "ghost towns" were gleaned from a wonderful and colorful book: The 35 Best GHOST TOWNS In East Texas..and 220 other towns we left behind. This is one of Bob Bowman's Books about east Texas and was published in 1988 by: Best of East Texas Publishers. This book is a must have for any East or Southeast Texas researcher.

Also, some of the foregoing information was gleaned from 1001 Texas Place Names, by Fred Tarpley, printed by University of Texas Press. 1980 (ISBN 0-292-76016-7). Also, Glimpses of Newton County History, by Pauline Hines & the Newton County Historical Commission, 1982, printed by Nortex Press of Burnett, Tx.

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