Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about New Town. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added New Town to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with New Town, please Contact Us.
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
- That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
- We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
- On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about New Town (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for New Town. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Cemeteries Near New Town ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of New Town.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for New Town - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for New Town covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from New Town, with the one closest to New Town listed first.
- Woodlawn Memorial Gardens
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Bethel Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Rosewood Memorial Park
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Riverside Memorial Park
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Jones Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Calvary Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calvary Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Calvary Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Norfolk.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #49657 <2>
- Hebrew Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Magnolia Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Mt. Olive Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Mt. Olive Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Bainbridge & Elco Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Workmans Circle Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (112 more) ...
- Mt. Gilead Missionary Baptist Church
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- St. Marys Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Elmwood Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmwood Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Elmwood Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Norfolk.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #50142 <2>
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.
While we didn't find New Town in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of New Town.
These communities are listed based on their distance from New Town, with the one closest to New Town listed first.
- Elizabeth Park
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Elizabeth Park is located in Norfolk City
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elizabeth Park
- Kempsville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Kempsville is located in Virginia Beach City
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kempsville
- Thalia
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Thalia is located in Virginia Beach City
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thalia
- Brambleton
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Brambleton is located in Norfolk City
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brambleton
- Berkley
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Berkley is located in Norfolk City
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berkley
- Norfolk
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Mapleton
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Mapleton is located in Virginia Beach City
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mapleton
- Lynnhaven
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Lynnhaven is located in Virginia Beach City
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynnhaven
- Lamberts Point
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Lamberts Point is located in Norfolk City
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamberts Point
- Ocean View
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Ocean View is located in Norfolk City
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ocean View
- London Bridge
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- London Bridge is located in Virginia Beach City
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for London Bridge
- Nimmo
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Nimmo is located in Virginia Beach City
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nimmo
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Pungo
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Pungo is located in Virginia Beach City
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pungo
- Virginia Beach
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Deanes
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Deanes is located in Suffolk City
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deanes
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around New Town. See our List of 1890's Communities around New Town.
Newspapers Published in New Town ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 160 newspapers that have been published in the area around New Town.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of New Town, there are papers which were published within 5 miles [8 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for New Town.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to New Town:
- Websites specific to Virginia
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Virginia
Footnotes ...
| <1> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about New Town, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com. |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- New Town) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |