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History in
a Pecan Shell
First known as Bear Hill, the town was established in the early 1870s
by a man named L. Hancock. In the late 1870s, when the time came for
a post office, leading townspeople submitted an anagram of the first
letters of their surnames. (Evidently Mr. Hancock wasn't included.)
The post office was granted 1878.
Newport had 176 residents by 1900 which increased to 280 by the mid-1920s.
The town maintained the same population through the Great Depression
but by the 1950s, the town had declined to 85. The estimated population
of 70 has been in use since the 1960s. |
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