The Newville Historic District is a national

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which is located in Newville,

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. The district is bordered roughly by Cove Alley, Big Spring Creek, the right-of-way for the Cumberland Valley Railroad, and Washington Street, and encompasses 414 contributing buildings, one contributing site, and two contributing objects in the

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and surrounding residential areas of Newville.

History

Most of the contributing buildings in this historic district are residential, spanning construction dates from 1790 to 1950. The oldest residential building is a log residence. Contributing non-residential buildings include the Big Spring Presbyterian Church (1790) and five additional churches, two governmental buildings, nine commercial buildings, three social buildings, one educational building, and one industrial building. The contributing objects are a fountain (1899) and a

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memorial monument (1940). The contributing site is Big Spring Presbyterian Cemetery (c. 1777). ''Note:'' This includes

Placement of this district on the National Register of Historic Places

The community's application to place the Newville Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places was reviewed by the Historic Preservation Board of the

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at its meeting on October 6, 2009, along with applications for: the Hamburg Historic District in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, the Hamnett Historic District in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania State Office Building and the

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in Philadelphia, the Experimental and Safety Research Coal Mines in Allegheny County's South Park Township, and the Cheney Farm,

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, and Chandler Mill Road Bridge in Chester County.National Register of Historic Places; Notification of Pending Nominations and Related Actions
" in ''Federal Register'', June 8, 2010, pp. 32502-32503. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, retrieved online September 30, 2019. This district was then officially added to the

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in 2010.

References

{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Historic districts in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania