CSA 1c, 5¢ olive green vertical pair (small faults) tied ACCOKEEK / Va. // Nov / 23 / 1861 CDS on Large Mounted Dragoon (Type SM-1) patriotic “Remember Sumpter, Bethel & Manassas” slogan and verse, to W. W. Gardner, Newsite, Ala, bit edge worn with light staining. SCV $2,500 for this lithographed issue on a patriotic. $700.

New Site is located in north-central Tallapoosa County in east-central Alabama. There are few records of New Site's early history prior to 1900. However, the New Salem Baptis Church was erected around 1848 and the town dates its founding to 1849. A Masonic Lodge was established in 1858. By the turn of the twentieth century, the town could boast a gristmill, post office, ginning house, telephone service, and a variety of stores. At some point, a three-room schoolhouse replaced a one-room log facility; it in turn was replaced in 1929 when a new facility was constructed. Much of the town burned in a 1927 fire, with the Masonic Lodge being among the buildings spared. In 1957, an attempt to incorporate the town as Horseshoe Bend failed and the town was later incorporated as New Site in 1965.