Newton House Museum

This excellent, two-story around 1849 has a true stylistic layout that mirrors its pre-Civil War time development. As the main house open to the general population in El Dorado that was worked before the Civil War, it offers a look into the rich history of southern Arkansas.In 1843, John Newton moved from Alabama to Arkansas, where he homesteaded 2,500 sections of land upper east of El Dorado, the zone of Champagnolle, and assembled an estate that thrived.

After incredible accomplishment with his Champagnolle cotton manor, he obtained 546 sections of land in the expanding adjacent town from L. Rainey, one of the main pioneers in El Dorado. That same year, he fabricated the John Newton House at its unique area on 200 Peach Street.