Newberry, Pennsylvania

 Methodist And Diamond Square Looking South, Newberry Pa

Showing the Trolley & Water Bowl

(This postcard was mailed in 1921)

Newberry Square and the World War Memorial

Parade and Dedication of the Monument, May 1922

May 1922, Monument Dedication

The Square, showing the War Monument

Methodist Church & Diamond Square, Newberry Pa

"The Square" at Newberry

Newberry Junction

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Jackson School, Newberry Pa

The school was destroyed in a fire, February 27th 1950

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Jared Reaser, of West Fourth Street In Newberry, was known by his stage name, Prince El KigordoHe kept lionesses in his backyard.  The town eventually put a stop to that, but after his retirement, he kept his retired lions in cages near Mountain Beach, in South Williamsport.Read more here:

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Lynn Street Looking West, Newberry Pa  1911 

Jackson School, Newberry Pa

Bank Of Newberry

West Fourth and Water Streets, Newberry Pa

Lutheran Church & Parsonage Dated 1907

First Newberry Post Office, 2110 Hillside Avenue

"Albert Cero looks at a deed dated 1888 in front of the second floor fireplace of the first Newberry Post Office Building at 2110 Hillside Avenue. The fire box and the spark protection screen are antiques."

H.B. Ault Drugstore

Druggist and Dealer in Groceries and  Provisions, Corner of Arch & Elm Streets

Interior, G.H. Blackwell, popular dry-goods, groceries, boots & shoes, hats & caps &c., Arch Street, Newberry, PA.

Funston & Snyder Bakery and Ice Cream Parlor

George B. Lehman Meat Market, 808 Arch St., Newberry. 1900

Residence of G.H. Blackwell, Arch St, Newberry Pa

The Homestead Hotel

(Later the Williamsport Radio Club)

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Double U, Newberry Pa

Newberry Street, Newberry Pa

Fourth Street West From Funston, Newberry Pa

Residence of Henry S. Mosser, Newberry. House razed in 1989, now beltway.

Dodge Mills became Sweet's Steel in 1904

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Bastin's Mill, Newberry PA

Long Reach Gravel & Sand Company, Newberry Pa

Newberry United Methodist Church

Cats Meow Collectible

Aerial View of Arch and Fourth Streets in Newberry

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1950 Flood, Newberry, Lycoming County  Pa

Aerial view of Lycoming Creek/Newberry area after 1950 flood.

Race & Arnold Streets, Newberry, 1950 flood

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"A saw mill had been erected as early as 1792 by Roland Hall on Luycoming Creek about four miles from its mouth.  Samuel Torbert built on on Bottle Run above Newberry in 1798, and Thoas Caldwell followed with one that same year within the present limits of Newberry" History of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania Volume 1 By Thomas W. Lloyd · 1929

1786 - The first church built in Lycoming  county was Lycoming Presbyterian church, in what was known as Jaysburg and is now the Newberry section of Williamsport.

W.C.T.U Fountain in Newberry was dedicated in  July 1889

The fountain was a gift of the Newberry Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

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History of Lycoming County Pennsylvania

edited by John F. Meginness; ©1892

NEWBERRY.

Crossing Lycoming creek into what is now the Seventh ward of the city, we find that John Sutton, a nephew of Amariah, was the first owner of the land on which Newberry stands. He settled there about 1772, when the territory was known as "Indian land." Sutton staked out a claim, but during his absence, when the settlers were driven away, John Boak squatted there, but sold his right to Robert Arthur, July 10, 1776, for £35. When Sutton returned he appealed to the Fair Play committee, consisting of John Walker, Thomas Kompley, Brattan Caldwell, and James Crandon, and after hearing the case they decided, July 20, 1776, as follows: "We, the regulators of the Indian land, being met upon a case of dispute between John Sutton and John Beak, and having heard all that has been delivered in the matter between them concerning the land John Beak lived on, we do agree that John Sutton has the prior and best right of the two." The case was afterwards. arbitrated between Sutton and Beak, because John Dunlap and Dorothy Reeder put in a claim, which was disputed by Robert Arthur, and Beak was prevented from signing a release, the said Arthur claiming in right of Samuel Anderson, by a conveyance bearing date June 20, 1785. The arbitrators, after hearing the evidence. did "award and determine that John Sutton had the only just right and title of pre-emption to the land." There were six arbitrators and William Hepburn was one of the number. Arthur then signed a release to Sutton as the "assignee of Samuel Anderson," disclaiming any right to the land "from the beginning of the world. until the day of the date hereof," which was the 20th of October, 1785. This release, enabled Sutton to get a patent from the Commonwealth, September 2, 1786.

The original grant to Sutton, to be more specific, was a pre-emption warrant, dated October 26, 1785, for 300 acres, "including his improvement made before the year 1778, on the west side of Lycoming creek adjoining the same, bounded by lands of John Dunlap on the north, John Clark on the west, and Joseph Reeder on the south." The terms of the warrant were at the rate of £30 per hundred acres. At the time the warrant was granted he had a credit on the books for a payment of £90, and at the time of final settlement another credit of £6 14s 8d. The quantity of land returned was 321 3/8 acres and allowance. The consideration named in the patent is "the moneys paid by John Sutton into the receiver general's office of this Commonwealth at the granting of the warrant hereinafter mentioned, and of the sum of £6 14s 8d, lawful money since paid by him. "The £96 14s 8d was Pennsylvania currency, which reduced to dollars and cents would be about $257.98. The tract was called "New Garden."

In 1794 John Sutton employed William Ellis, the deputy surveyor, to lay out a town on his tract, which be called Newberry. A draft is recorded in the front part of Deed Book VIII, showing the lots, streets, and alloys. In a certificate Sutton declares that the plan is according to his "original proposition containing his proposals to adventurers and settlers in his said town,"and then adds in a postscript that "the two main streets Market and Diamond are fifty feet, and the street round the town thirty feet, and the alloys sixteen feet wide." He commenced the sale of lots at once. September 3, 1795, he sold one to William Ellis for £15, and on the 16th of August, 1796, one to Flavel Roan for the same price. The sales of other lots are also recorded, showing that he did a fair business for the time.

The first tavern opened in Newberry was by George Slone in 1795. It is now known as the Oberfell place. In those days it was a popular place of resort and was frequented by the prominent men of the time. Slone's old account book shows many curious entries. A "gill" cost 5½ d, and there are many charges of this kind. The old tavern was accidentally burned in 1817, but the neighbors felt the loss so, severely that they all turned in and assisted in rebuilding it.

JAYSBURG.

Lying immediately south of Newberry was the town of Jaysburg. The first settler was Joseph Haines, about 1773, who made some improvements. After the land was acquired from the Indians William Paul made application for a tract. His warrant, which was dated October 26, 1785, granted him "district No. 1 of the New Purchase," and named the tract "Pleasant Grove. "Paul sold his land to Abraham Latcha, December 1, 1787; after his death his eldest son Jacob purchased the claims of the other heirs and had a town laid out early in the year 1795 by William Ellis, and named it Jaysburg. Although it was not as old as Newberry, it immediately boomed ahead in anticipation of becoming the county seat. The lots were arranged with a frontage of fifty-two feet and a depth of 208, on streets named Water, Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth, running east and west; with Market and Queen running north and south. The alleys were named Church, Rising, Pine, Court, Strawberry, and Spruce. Lots were sold, £15 and £20 being the ruling price, and buildings hastily erected. For a few years the outlook was very encouraging. John Dunlap opened a tavern, shops and stores were started, and everybody expected Jaysburg would be selected for the county seat. On the 13th of August, 1796, Latcha sold a lot for 55s to John Cammings and John. Stewart, trustees, for an English school house to be erected thereon. Rooms for a jail and court house were provided and the judicial machinery was set in motion.

But when the commissioners selected Williamsport as the place for the county seat, Jaysburg immediately went into decline and soon passed away.

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