Phelps County, Missouri Genealogy Trails

Cities / Towns

NEWBURG
The Town of Newburg is eight miles west of Rolla, the County Seat of Phelps County and is 119 miles southwest of St. Louis and the same distance east of Springfield. It is the end of the 1st Division of the St. Louis and San Francisco Rail Road. Population of about 500. (in 1892)

It is beautifully situated in the Valley of the Little Piney River and on the hills on the north side of the Valley, from which there is a magnificent view of the surrounding picturesque country.

Newburg was incorporated as a Village in November, 1888. The Round House and Machine and Blacksmithing shops were built, in the fall of 1883, put in to operation in January 1884. There is also located here under the superintendence of Mr. K. P. Alexander, the Sand Drying House, Coal Chutes and Store Rooms, giving employment to over 50 men, a large number of whom own their own homes in the village.

There is used at Newburg and shipped to the varies Round Houses on the Road nearly 200,000 bushels of dried sand per year. There is issued to the locomotives that run into Newburg, 28,000 tons of coal per year.

Te pay roll of the men employed at Newburg amounts to $22,000 per year. In 1891 an average of 36 trains per day arrived and departed from Newburg.

Newburg has quite a large number of substantial Dwellings, Business Houses, Hotels, Schools, Churches and Livery Stables.

Newburg boasts the possession of live business men and good mechanics.
[The Rolla New Era, Mar. 26, 1892, pg 2. - C. Horton ©2009]