![]() ![]() The ethnic identity of the Clovis Culture hunters is not known. The mastodons, saber tooth tigers, giant sloths and other massive mammals died out about 8,000 years ago. During the Ice Age, herds of giant mammals roamed the river bottom lands. Clovis and Folsom points, associated with Late Ice age big game hunters have been found in the Ocmulgee River Valley. Native American Cultural Periods Earliest InhabitantsĪrchaeologists believe that humans have lived in region around Newton County for at least 12,000 years, perhaps much longer. It connected the shoals on the Savannah River ( Patofa) where Augusta is now located, with the shoals on the Etowah River adjacent to Etowah Mounds. Creeks continued to occupy the region until it was ceded to the State of Georgia in 18.Ī very important Native American trade path passed through northern Newton County. Members of the Creek Confederacy occupied the South, Yellow and Alcovy River Basins when first contacted by English traders. The major streams include Snapping Shoals, Hurricane, Cane, Caney Fork, Beaverdam, Strouds, Big Haynes, Big Flat, Nelson, Wildcat and Long Creeks. It is typical in the Piedmont for some small streams (branches) to flow through narrow, swamp-like corridors of saturated soil. Some streams flow fast and clear, while others meander through swamps or seasonal wetlands. Alcovy probably is the Anglicization of the hybrid Itza Maya-Creek word Al-cofv, which means Territory of the Mixed (people.) In April of 1540, Hernando de Soto passed through a town in east-central Georgia names Cofe-te (Mixed People.) Ocmulgee is the Anglicization of the hybrid Hitchiti-Muskogee-Creek words, Oka-mole-ke, which means “water- swirling-people.” There is an extensive swamp and seasonal wetland system paralleling the Alcovy River in Newton County. That river name is the anglicized form of the Muskogee-Creek words, Uewv-cofv-haci, which means water-mixed-river. The original name of the Alcovy River was Ulcofauhatchee until the 20 th century. These small rivers were deep enough to support large Native American canoes except where shoals were located, such as at Factory Shoals near Covington. These rivers join at the southern end of the county to form the Ocmulgee River. Newton County is drained by the Alcovy, Yellow and South Rivers. The landscape varies from being flat to moderately hilly. Cotton was the most important agricultural product before the Civil War, but there were few large plantations. Newton County was immediately south of the old Cotton Line, which marked the northern limit of cotton species grown before the Civil War. The top soils are thin over most hills and steep slopes, while much deeper near streams and in the plains. There are few permanent wetlands paralleling the streams. The Piedmont’s terrain generally consists of rolling hills and stream valleys with some areas being almost flat plains. Newton County was located in the Piedmont geological region, which is characterized by underlying rock strata of igneous and metamorphicized igneous rock. Henry County forms the southwestern border, while Rockdale County forms the northwest border. Morgan County adjoins it on the east while Jasper County adjoins it on the Southeast. Newton County is bordered on the north by Walton County. John Newton, a hero of the American Revolution. The charts below break down the men, women, races, ethnicities and the types of crimes that peopleĪre arrested and incarcerated for in both Newton County and state prisons throughout the country.Newton County located in northern Georgia and is part of the Atlanta Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA.) Its name honors Sgt. The weekly turnover rate of inmates is approximately 55%, meaning that every week more than half of these inmates are released and then replaced with new offenders being booked into jail. Inmate's first and last name - inmate ID # - cell location Newton County Jail & Detention Center 15151 Alcovy Road Covington, GA 30014Įvery year Newton County law enforcement agencies arrest and detain 9,600 offenders, and maintain an average of 450 inmates (county-wide) in their custody on any given day. If you are looking for a prisoner in Georgia or Federal custody, click on the appropriate institution below. The amount of their bond, or view their public mugshot, click on the link below or call theįacility at 67 for the information you are looking for. To search for an inmate in the Newton County Jail & Detention Center, review their criminal charges, ![]() How do you find someone who is in jail in Newton County? ![]() Newton County Jail & Detention Center Inmate Search ![]()
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