The story
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From Wikipedia’s history of Newsoms.
Sunnyside was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
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History · Newsoms
Newsoms’ post office opened in 1880, and 23% of its homes were built before 1940
Its Register listing is the Sunnyside. Below: 3 old photos and papers, maps from 1920 on, and the census since 1950.
1880first post office
1on the National Register
23%homes built before 1940
3old photos & papers
Quick answers
How Newsoms began
When was Newsoms founded?
1880
The Newsoms post office opened in 1880, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Newsoms Depot (1836), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
First census: 392 in 19502020 census: 286146 years
Founding year: the first Newsoms post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
What stands out about Newsoms’ past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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Start Newsoms’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Newsoms’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.On the map
Newsoms on the map, 1920 to 1990
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Newsoms. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1920Boykins sheet · 1:62,500U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Newsoms.
Timeline
Newsoms, 1836 to 1920
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
By decade
Newsoms, decade by decade
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2005Then & now
Stand where they stood
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Retake this viewBarrett, 33440 Statesville Road (State Route 673)
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Newsoms’ page.
Retake this view · +15On the National Register
1 historic place in Newsoms
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
14
each building in a district counts
first listed
1982
Sunnyside
Buildings
Architectural styles listings
Greek Revival1
Italianate1
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
People over time
Newsoms, census by census
Between 282 and 423 people in every census since 1950.
8 censuses, 1950–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Newsoms’ Wikipedia page.
Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Newsoms
Nobody well known was born in Newsoms itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
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Ella MitchellAmerican actress · b. 1937
Places that used to be
Lost post offices and burying grounds
Newsoms’s post office has been open since 1880. Another post office, Newsoms Depot, opened and closed inside today’s town.
Newsoms Depot
Newsoms
18301930today
1cemetery inside Newsoms
Hollywood
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Questions about Newsoms’ history
What year was Newsoms founded?
The Newsoms post office opened in 1880, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
What is on the National Register in Newsoms?
One place: the Sunnyside (listed 1982).
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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Sources
Where this page comes from
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (1), the Library of Congress (3), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.