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The Civil War ended and Newburgh then incorporated into a city. George Clark was elected the first Mayor and on March 11, 1866, the Common Council held its first meeting. Alexander Morgan was chosen to organize and manage a full-time, uniformed police department in the new City of Newburgh.
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Newburgh was chartered as a city in April 1865. Newburgh became quite prosperous during the Gilded Age that followed. Newburgh had telephone service in 1879. [7] In 1883 there was a steamboat landing on Second Street. The United States Hotel was on Front Street opposite the landing.
Newburgh was incorporated as a village in 1800 and as a city in 1865. With its situation on the Hudson River, midway between New York City and Albany and its naturally deep port, Newburgh became a prosperous shipping, transportation and industrial hub.
May 3, 2024 · The City of Newburgh is very proud to say that they were in March of 1884 The Edison Central Power Plant cranked up their steam boilers and lit the first electric lights in downtown Newburgh businesses. This historic moment in Newburgh led to Thomas Edison perfecting his design for the incandescent light bulb.
- A New Era
- A Business Place, 1790-1841
- A Continued Sabbath, 1842-1845
A new era has dawned; the tidal wave of prosperity that swept over the village a hundred years ago has returned. The old turnpikes have been paralleled with railroads, stretching to us from every direction; and the river, too, gives us communication with the Atlantic coast and all the world. Many manufactories are springing up within our bounds, an...
What is Newburgh? What is its distinguishing Trait? It is truly a business place. Since its originsto the present moment it has received and sustained that character. There is no place within the bounds of our knowledge, of which so large a proportion of the inhabitants are business men. Within its limits are about 200 buildings opened for the purp...
What has been experienced in Newburgh by the opening of the Erie railroad? Rents have fallen 50 per cent; two thirds of their steam boat passengers have gone; their hotels are empty and everything indicates the approach of desolation and ruin! Speech given in Poughkeepsie as reported in the Newburgh Journal, March 12, 1842 Such were the deadening i...
Jul 18, 2024 · Newburgh, city, Orange county, southeastern New York, U.S. It lies on the west bank of the Hudson River (opposite Beacon), 58 miles (93 km) north of New York City. First settled by Germans from the Palatinate in 1709, it became a parish in 1752 and was named for Newburgh, Scotland.
History. Prior to 1817, the original water supply of the Village of Newburgh (now the City of Newburgh) was mainly supplied water from shallow hand-dug wells.
