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=**Historic African-American Sites in Newton County, GA**= = =

Sites of significance in Newton County's African-American History include:


 * Covington:**

//Bethlehem Baptist Church.// The oldest African-American church in Newton county.

//Covington Square//. Site of major Civil Rights marches in the 1970s.

//Jail.// Civil rights protesters were jailed here in 1970.


 * Oxford:**

//Historically African-American cemetery//. Includes headstone of Rev. Potter, a free man of color, who served as a preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

//Kitty's Cottage.// Slave quarters, said to have been occupied by Miss Kitty (c. 1833-c.1855), an enslaved woman owned by Bishop James O. Andrew of the Methodist Church. Located behind Old Church.

//Mitchell and Hammond marker.// Plaque dedicated to the memory of Billy Mitchell and Bob Hammond, custodians at Emory College/Emory-at-Oxford. On the Oxford College campus in front of the Science building.