Hugh Goodwin Newton (1873-1924) and Adelaide Grace Newton (née Whitehouse, 1877-1967) were an English couple who owned the Warwickshire Heights tract here with Frank A. Tetley. Hugh Newton grew up in Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire – hence the tract’s name – the eldest son of a family that owned thousands of acres in Birmingham, Wales, and the Scottish Isles. After graduating from Oxford and passing the UK bar, he somewhat inexplicably decided to live in Riverside, CA. He purchased around 50 acres of orange groves there in 1902 and arrived with his new bride Adelaide the following year. Newton partnered with Tetley on a Riverside hotel in 1906, but within two years’ time he and Adelaide were back in England. They must have bought this land before leaving: Tetley opened their tract in 1913, which is when Newton Street was named.
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