California Map Showing San Francisco, Newport. And Rail Road Connections With The Adjacent Country. Drawn by W. Alpheus Smith. T.R. Holland Lith. Boston. Plan & Location of the City of Newport, California, the terminus of the Great Pacific Rail-Road, a few homestead & building lots to be distributed free. for particulars enquire of the Agnet. (inset) Plan of Newport, California. (with: A Deed for lot 37 in Block 392 in the City of Newport to William H. Carr, of Mount Vernon, Kennebec County, State of Maine).

Map without color. Shows cities and towns, with detailed plan of Newport city, city blocks, roads, railroads, etc. Relief shown by hachures. Map published separately to complement the Deeds.
Evidence of a land promotion that collapsed. The City of Newport is shown prominently on the map attached to the deed, as large as San Francisco, and connected by three railroads to other cities. Newport never got off the ground. The 1878 Solano County Atlas shows only a tiny hamlet called Collinsville where Newport should be (the deed says that Newport was "formerly" called Collinsville - but obviously Collinsville it remained when the speculative fever abated). On page 13 of the Solano Atlas is the following: "Many of the older settlers remember New Port and the enterprise of its proprietor in the disposition of town lots, and perhaps some of the people of the east have occasion to remember it also. Town lots were sold by agents in the east covering all the tide land in the vicinity." On the map is a descriptive paragraph pumping up Newport, saying that "a town situated like Newport...cannot fail of making its mark, and holding rank among the great cities of our country." It is not clear why the development scheme failed, but the likely reason is a change in the location of the railroads that left Newport isolated. The promoters were betting that the railroad to the Bay Area from the east would end at Newport and then connect by ferry to New York. Unfortunately the railroad was run to Vallejo with the crossing made there. Newport appears on the Frey/Nell Map of California and Nevada, 1868; Ransom & Doolittle's California and Nevada, 1868; Holt/Gibbes California and Nevada 1869 (and the smaller issues of 1873 and 1875); and the California Geological Survey's Map of the Region Adjacent to San Francisco Bay, 1873 (shows Newport and Collinsville next to each other). Interestingly, it never appears on the Bancroft Pacific States map and its spin off maps, but does appear on Bancroft's Map of Central California of 1869. The General Land Office maps of 1876 and 1879 do not show Newport, indicating its demise.