By the s, the Newberg area had become heavily influenced by the Friends Quaker Church. He attracted a sizable number of followers to the valley, mainly from Indiana and Iowa. They, more than any other group of settlers, did more to take a collection of farmsteads and transform them into a town. Across Hess Creek just to the east of downtown is Friends Cemetery, the final resting place of George Mitchell , the man who shot and killed Edmund Creffield , the most famous American religious cult leader of the early 20th century.
Major league baseball legend Billy Sullivan , catcher for the world champion Chicago White Sox, retired and died here.
In , the community was platted. Incorporated in , tradition holds that this town was named by its first postmaster, Sebastian Brutscher, for his former hometown of Neuberg in Germany. One of the current streets, Brutscher Street, is named after him. Newberg was one of the first communities in Oregon to hold Quaker services. It was incorporated as a city in The city's oldest surviving newspaper, The Newberg Graphic , was established Dec.
George Fox University is classified by U. The campus resides in the center of the city, surrounded by university-owned housing. Herbert Hoover moved to the city in , to live with his uncle and aunt after the death of his parents and was one of the first students to attend his uncle's Pacific Academy The home has been turned into the Hoover-Minthorn House museum.
The town was "dry" , meaning no alcohol could be sold within the city limits, for a good part of its early history. Springbook , once a separate community, is now considered part of Newberg. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 5. It averages feet 54 m in elevation. They were hunters and gatherers, and were semi-nomadic, living on the prairies in the summers and on the forest edges in the winters. Hudson Bay Company trappers populated the first European settlement in the area in a place called Champoeg, which is located approximately seven miles southeast of Newberg.
In fact, Champoeg was the site where Oregon's provisional government was established in An increasing influx of pioneers subsequently found the Newberg area as an attractive place to settle and began clearing land for farming.
In , Newberg was given its name by its first postmaster, Sebastian Brutscher, who named the town after his Bavarian hometown of Newburgh. The early years of Newberg were heavily influenced by the Friends Church. After determining that the rainfall, temperature and agricultural productivity was suitable, he settled in Chehalem Valley and began preaching.
The average household size was 2. In the city the population was spread out with The median age was 30 years. For every females there were For every females age 18 and over, there were About 4.
As of , dental equipment manufacturer A-dec was the city's largest employer with employees, and George Fox University was second with The school district has six elementary schools, two middle schools, and one high school, Newberg High School. Media related to Newberg, Oregon at Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Foundation. The school provides a classical and biblically based kindergarten through twelfth grade education. In — it enrolled students.
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