The Newberry post office opened in 1849, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Slinkards Mills (1823), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
First census: 329 in 18802020 census: 159177 years
Founding year: the first Newberry post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
What stands out about Newberry’s past
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Peaked at 455 in 1910; 159 people lived here in 2020.
13 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Newberry’s Wikipedia page.
The story so far
Newberry, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Newberry yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Newberry is a town in Cass Township, Greene County, Indiana, United States. The population was 159 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Bloomington, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Its first post office opened in 1849. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 193 to 159 (-18%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Newberry in 1859
Passages that mention Newberry, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The annals of Newberry, historical, biographical and anecdotical1859Read the page →
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After this happy event, he ceased to be an itinerant merchant, and settled in Newberry District, about fifteen rniles north of the town of Newberry; the section where he settled, resided and died, has been called Mollohon for many years.
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The annals of Newberry, historical, biographical and anecdotical1859Read the page →
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Assuming this to be true-, I think it maybe considered as prettj'' certain that the part? of Newberry first occupied and settled by the white man, were as follows : the Dutch Fork in 1745; the east side of Little River, near its mouth, (Turner's settlement,) in 1751; the Canebreak, on Enoree, (Pennington's grant,) in 1751, or possibly earlier; and Duncan's Creek, (Duncan's settlement,) in 17'52.
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Newberry, 1823 to 1943
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (2), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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