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Title: Newburg Congregational Church
Description: Newburg Congregational Church in Newburg, Iowa. The church, which was built in 1896, was first organized in 1880. "By Geo. W. Palmer" is written on the photo.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:20223

Title: Newburg Congregational Church
Description: Newburg Congregational Church in Newburg, Iowa, after a snowstorm, possibly taken in the 1910s or 1920s. The church was built by Anson Hayden Palmer.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:12003

Title: Newburg Elevator
Description: The Newburg (Iowa) elevator in the early 1940s. The elevator was built in 1917 and demolished in 2014. Itel Gillespie and Mac (Glenn) McCarel are standing in front of the elevator. On the verso of the photo is a handwritten history of the elevator and the town which was probably written in the late 1960s. It reads: Newburg founded 1878. 100 years ago there were 2 grain elevators constructed of wood. Then in 1917-1918 a poured concrete elevator and a block warehouse were built and still in use. 3 grocery stores that burned. The present building that still stands was a grocery store, but now is an apartment house. The railroad depot was demolished about 5 years ago. A water tank furnished water to the steam engines. A stock yard was available for the farmers cattle and hogs. We had our own post office. The creamery building still stands and did a route business and part of the building used as an ice house. We once had a prosperous bank, but it closed in 1933. There have been 2 blacksmith shops, a lumber yard. The farmers owned a telephone switchboard. One of the residents owned and operated a Model T agency. At one time we had 2 churches, the Church of God and the Congregational, this is now known as the UCC. A KP hall served as community center where the women gathered to sew during World War I. The lower floor housed new farm machinery. Our school is still operating and it now serves just 6th graders and one kindergarten class. In 1964 a newly formed organization known as Newburg Community Service Association dug a 225 foot well. It serves all homes business, school and church.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:20602

Title: Newburg General Store
Description: The former Newburg General Store in Newburg, Iowa. Dorothy Palmer and her son, David Yandell are standing in front. Charles Austin and Nora Belle Palmer lived above the store with their family in the early 20th century. Abi (Alden) and Anson Palmer (Charles' parents) were married and began farming in what became Newburg in 1877. In 1881, Abi's brother, George Alden, bought the little general store on the land they were farming for Abi and George's mother, Louisa, and unmarried sister, Vesta, to live in. In 1920 or 1921 the apartment above the general store was available and Charles Austin Palmer and his wife, Nora Belle (Brown), lived there with their children when they returned to Newburg in 1920 or 1921, after building houses in Carpenter, Wyoming for a few years. Philip Palmer was born here and the family continued to reside above the store until around 1928, when they moved to Grinnell.
Date Created: 2008
PID: grinnell:12024

Title: Newburg High School Girls' Basketball Team
Description: Newburg High School girls' basketball team, 1928 champions. Top row, left to right: Ruby Davis, right center; Harriet Bacon, forward; Miss Leon Boegel, coach; Erma Bell, sub, right center; Tilla Rutherford, sub, guard. Bottom row, left to right: Add Gillespie, guard; Esther Palmer, guard; Mary Murphy, center, captain; Louise Smith, forward; Lorene Palmer, sub, right center and forward. Photo by Child.
Date Created: 1928
PID: grinnell:11941

Title: Newburg High School Girls' Glee Club
Description: Newburg High School Girls' Glee Club in 1927/1928. Top row, left to right: Ruth Flark, soprano; Ruth McCulloch, soprano; Lorene Palmer, alto; Miss Halverson, instructor. Front row, left to right: Lola Walker, soprano; Irene Madill, soprano; Mary Murphy, soprano or alto; Esther Palmer, alto; Lucille Bacon, alto. Photo by Child.
Date Created: 1927
PID: grinnell:11940

Title: Newburg High School Seniors 1922
Description: Newburg High School seniors in the class of 1922. From 12 o'clock going counter clockwise: Carroll Lane, Clarinda Murphy, Harry Buck, Frances Murphy, Elizabeth Breeden. Photography by Tyler Studio, Newton, Iowa.
Date Created: 1922
PID: grinnell:27199

Title: Newburg High School Students, Spring 1922
Description: Newburg High School faculty and students in the spring of 1922. Front row, sitting on ground, left to right: Harold McCulloch, John Ahrens, Lloyd Palmer, Al Byerly (janitor), John Murphy. Second row, seated, left to right: Viola Littrell, Josephine Hendrickson, Elizabeth Ahrens (senior), Mary Ahrens (senior), Carroll Lane (senior), George H. Lane (senior), Clarinda Murphy (senior), Elizabeth Breeden (senior), Lora Stark, Alberta Smith, Virgil Adams. Third row, standing, left to right: ? Young, Morris Miller, Elmer Stark, Verle Muckler (senior), Frances Murphy (senior), Katherine Ahrens (senior), Anna Madill (senior) Harry Buck (senior), Lloyd Stoaks, Loren Walker, Lawrence Madill, Priscilla Burroughs. Back row, left to right: R.L. Tone (superintendent), Maud Neeley (Home economics), Dan Edgington (coach).
Date Created: 1922
PID: grinnell:27200

Title: Newburg High School's First Basketball Team
Description: Newburg High School's first basketball team circa 1922. Front row, left to right: Carroll Lane, George Lane, Verle Muckler, Virgil Adams. Back row, left to right: Lloyd Stoaks, Dan Edgington (coach), Harry Buck.
Date Created: 1922
PID: grinnell:27198

Title: Newburg Home built by Charles Austin Palmer
Description: Home at 15102 Newcomer Avenue in Newburg, Iowa, built by Charles Austin Palmer with Dorothy Palmer standing on the steps.
Date Created: 2008
PID: grinnell:12022