Newtown Historic Association Research Center
The Newtown Historic Association's free archive, where you can pull deeds, wills, diaries, and photographs back to 1725, when Newtown was the county seat. It keeps a deep file on Edward Hicks, the Quaker preacher and folk painter who lived here, and opens for house-history and genealogy digs Tuesday mornings and Thursday nights.
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