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Title: Abi Frances Alden Palmer
Description: Studio portrait of Abi Frances Alden Palmer, wife of Anson Hayden Palmer. They married in 1877. Portrait by Brown, Marshalltown, Iowa.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:11943

Title: Anson Hayden Palmer
Description: Studio portrait of Anson Hayden Palmer, who founded Newburg, Iowa, on land purchased by his father, Horace Palmer. Portrait by Brown, Marshalltown, Iowa.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:11942

Title: Maxine Louden and Ruth Gillespie
Description: Maxine Louden (left) and Ruth Gillespie (right) at the 100th anniversary celebration of the Newburg (Iowa) Congregational-United Church of Christ in 1980.
Date Created: 1980
PID: grinnell:20221

Title: Newburg Chester Congregational Church
Description: Color view of the Newburg Chester Congregational Church in 2008. The church was built by Anson Hayden Palmer in 1896.
Date Created: 2008
PID: grinnell:12018

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 Slaughterhouse
Description: Newburg, Iowa, slaughterhouse, also referred to as the "creamery." It was located between Center Street and the railroad tracks.
Date Created: 2008
PID: grinnell:12019