Culture & Traditions

This section has several articles on the different customs and traditions that made up Newton County life.

Dowsing Mama’s New Stove Quilts Thank You Ma’am Cane Grinding Making Lye Soap Old Jim Gordon’s Gold The Secrets of Summer Shape Note Singing - Christian Harmony Country Churches Were the Center of It All What Is A First Cousin, Twice Removed? Home Life in the 1870’s & 1880’s The Open Range & Stock Laws Fencing In & Fencing Out Bonnie & Her Wash Pot The Good Old Days Mama’s Oil-cloth Tanning Hides Hunting Quail The Outhouse Bowl Making The Wagon Church Going in the 1870’s and 1880’s - Part 1 & 2 Early Life in the Jackson Prairie

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