On Highway 890 about 10 kilometers north of Sussex in Studholm Parish is the community of Newtown, New Brunswick. It was founded in approximately 1854 and was known as Upper Smiths Creek, for the creek that flows through the area. Major landowners at the time included names such as Coates, Goslin, and Stockton. A part of the settlement was called Mace District for the Mace brothers who established a mill there.
For reasons currently unknown, the place was renamed Newton in 1867 and renamed again in 1892 to Newtown. By 1898 Newtown was a farming community with a post office, general store, two grist mills, a sawmill, and a church; its population was 275. On the 1911 census the area was enumerated as part of Studholm Parish with no reference to the name of the town.
The pictured United Church was erected in 1897 and has stood in the same location for over a century. It has been many years since the building was used but it's still being maintained, perhaps by nearby neighbours or the community at large.
Further east up the road one can also see the Newtown Public Hall built in 1911, the Anderson's Country Vacation Farm bed and breakfast, and the Oldfield Covered Bridge Park.
*Photo courtesy of Greg Scribner, 2018
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