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I intend to expand the article. This will include an "Early history" and "Infrastructure" section, specifically dealing with early history rail service.
There is conflicting information concerning the etymology of the name. The Battle of Newton's Station has complicated this as some works elude to the early name of the community or town as "Newton's Station". The "Battle of Newton's Station" article, using only one source so likely containing close paraphrasing, uses the name Newton's Station redirected to this article. There is nothing abnormal about this except in the third paragraph the article mentions "entered the town of Newton's Station (now Newton)".
If there is actually no confusion, no tertiary-source fallacy, by possibly confirming that Newton's Station might have been only a water stop (sometimes including wood or coal), certainly more than a flag stop, and the town or community early name, along with the station name was the same at one point, and earlier than the 1860's.
One source states that on September 20, 1837, Colonel Archilaus Wells, who left Kentucky in 1798, bought land and built a house in Newton County, supposedly in Newton. :Roger Williams Doolittle (same source) arrived in Newton County (established February 26, 1836) in 1842. It shows he (Doolittle) possibly owned a stage company (in or around Newton) that ran from Enterprise through Garlandville (on current Mississippi highway 504) to Newton. Confirmed, with better sourcing, this would agree with information that when the railroad (shown as Southern Railroad Company), that had purchased the Brandon and Jackson Railroad, entered Newton it was the end of the line for over a year between 1860 and 1861. -- Otr500 (talk) 01:50, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
