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Newton County
Organized in 1835
Named for John Newton
Nearly vertical strata found in the stone at the Kentland Crater evoke theories about either a meteor impact or a major earthquake 65 million years ago. George Ade, popular newspaper columnist and playwright from the 1890s through the 1940s, was born near Brook. Scenes from Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" were shot over New County's cornfields. |