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Newville is an incorporated town in southwestern Henry County in southeastern Alabama, and it is part of the Dothan Metropolitan Statistical Area.

James Madison Wells founded the village around 1882 and named it "Wells" after himself.

When the Abbeville Southern Railroad laid tracks through the settlement in 1893, its name was changed to Wells Station, and a post office was built in 1894.

Wells Station incorporated as the town of Newville in 1903.

In its railroad-era heyday Newville was a prosperous farm town with merchants, banks, lodges, doctors, churches, societies, a newspaper, a depot, sawmills, cotton gins, and mule stables, but it entered a long decline after the Great Depression as farm mechanization cut local commerce.

Newville High School opened in a modern brick building in 1929 and served the town until it closed in 1968.

Newville's Black school, organized in 1894 as the Jacksonian Enterprise School, was rebuilt with Rosenwald Foundation assistance in 1919 as the Newville Rosenwald School, later Rosenwald High School, which also closed in 1968.

The Newville Baptist Church Cemetery, on land donated by James M. and Catherine Wells in 1887, holds more than 700 marked and unmarked graves and was listed on the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register in 2005.

The 2020 U.S. Census counted 544 residents in Newville; the 2000 census recorded 553 people in 221 households and 163 families.

Alabama State Route 173 passes through the center of Newville as Broad Street, while four-lane U.S. Route 431 cuts through the town's southeast corner, putting Dothan about 15 miles to the south.