Newport's Street Names

 

 
 

 
Newport re-named many of it's streets in 1890.  Note that some of the numbered streets had different names for different segments of their lengths; also, some were already numbered for portions of their length.  See map above.
 
 
  Today's Name Prior Name
 
  First Short; Main
  Second Eglantine; Whitten
  Third Taylor
  Fourth Bellevue
  Fifth Madison
  Sixth Jefferson; Todd; Walnut
  Seventh Locust; Mayo
  Eighth Goodman; Ringgold
  Ninth Harris
  Tenth Tibbats
  Eleventh Williamson
  Twelfth Liberty
  Thirteenth Ward
  Brighton Hubbard
  Park Kilgour
  Chestnut Lewis
  Patterson Moss
 
And last but not least, during WWI,  German was changed to Liberty, the prior name for 12th Street.