Editing Newburg, Louisville (section)

==History==
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The area now called Newburg was settled in the 1820s by four [[Germans|German]] families, and was a small village called '''Newburgh''' a decade later.<ref name="CJournal">{{cite news |title=Newburg Days festival offers a nostalgic celebration for a neighborhood rich with history |url=https://www.courier-journal.com/story/entertainment/events/things-to-do/2019/08/31/newburg-days-festival-2019-louisville-neighborhood-celebrates-history/2142258001/ |access-date=19 December 2021 |publisher=Courier Journal |date=31 August 2019}}</ref> The 'h' was dropped and the modern spelling emerged as the name of the post office by the end of the 19th century.

Newburg has historically had a black population, once centered on the nearby Petersburg area, at the junction of Shepherdsville and Newburg Roads. By 1851, Eliza and Henry Tevis, a free black couple who owned slaves, operated a {{convert|40|acre|m2|adj=on}} farm in the area. After the Civil War, freed blacks bought land in the area and started farms.

Into the 1900s, Petersburg and Newburg were still surrounded by farmland. Newburg at some point had become the chosen name for the area, most likely because it was the name of the post office. Suburban sprawl reached the area by the 1960s, and it became popular with middle-class blacks leaving the city for suburbs. The area remains predominantly black.

From 1982 to 1987, Newburg was an incorporated city; however, it was an unpopular move and was eventually dissolved.

With the help of the Library Foundation and community support a new $1.9 million, 8300-square-foot education and technology driven library was completed and opened in Newburg in August 2009.