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Why not call it Newburg?
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Naming of Newburg
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Law services, other states, families traveling, schools, teachers, elevators, architecture, postmaster
Post title: “Why not call it Newburg?"
Date published: Aug. 8, 2024
Link to blog post: https://jharleymcilrath.substack.com/p/why-not-call-it-newburg
Drake Library Archive Digital File Name: Newburg Stories 2024-08-08 "Why not call it Newburg?'
Summary:
The story of how Newburg got it's name, based on an elusive civics history question reflected in the Newburg book. Explores various conversations with the relatives of Newburg's founders and passed down stories, and who was entitled to the naming rights and how they may have come to it. Disproving the textbook's answer that it was a combination of two founders' last names (John Newcomer and Mr. Hamburg -- the latter whom there is no memory of), the author argues the name came from Mr. Gus Whitney, who did help found the town; who hailed originally from Newburg(h), Maine.
Alphabetized index here!
Anson Palmer
Belle Sisco Fay
Charley Morris
Dick Sears
Dorothy Pinder
Ed Fay
Edith Palmer Sears
E.H. (Eugene) Taylor
Gene Taylor
Grace McCarol
Horace Palmer
John Newburg
John Planalp
Nathaniel W. Cox
Shirley Sisco Hartzell
Verna Burroughs Paul