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Partitioned into Greene County, Lenoir County, and Wayne County. Tryon County. 1768 [14] 1779 [14] Partitioned into Lincoln County and Rutherford County. For several months in 1784, Cumberland County was known as Fayette County and sent representatives to the North Carolina General Assembly of April 1784 under this name.
Another post office six miles west of Newton Grove was known as Blackman's Mills from 1858 to 1914. The Blackman family were affluent planters who settled in the area in the early 18th century. They were descendants of Jeremiah Blackman, mariner of London who captained several ships that brought English settlers to the Colony of Virginia in the 17th century.
Newton's current population of approximately 13,000 is also diverse, and our people are what makes Newton truly shine as the County Seat of Catawba County. *Excerpts taken from "She Is Not Yet Finished: A History of Newton, North Carolina," by Dr. Gary R. Freeze, as commissioned by the City of Newton and the Catawba County Historical Association.
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St. Paul's Church, Newton is a two-story log weatherboarded church built in 1818. It features a Federal style interior with carved sounding board and moldings and a separate, now repurposed, slave balcony. The building is one of the oldest existing churches in North Carolina west of the Catawba River. The graveyard headstones date to the late ...
Newton-Conover is a part of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) and are classified as a 2A school. The school is a member of the Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference. Newton-Conover has won the following NCHSAA team state championships: Girls Basketball: 1992 (2A), 2020 (2A) Football: 2008 (2A)
