- The Evansville and Ohio valley Line connected Evansville and Mt. Vernon with Rockport and Grandview by way of Newburgh. The building was located on State Street across from the present Newburgh Elementary School. Pictured circa 1908.
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- In 1868, the building known as the Newburgh Grade School, was built at a cost of $14,000 and opened under the newly established "free public school system". The school contained six school rooms, halls and closets, and was located on Monroe Street where the west wing of the present elementary school now stands. The pupils sat on double wooden desks, wrote with slate pencils, and learned to count on a frame containing colored beads. They drank from a well at the side of the building using "community" tin cups that were kept in the well house. Pictured circa 1868.
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- The first class to graduate from Newburgh High School was in 1880. The Newburgh Grade School housed both the grade school and high school until 1924 when a new building was erected east of the existing school facing onto State Street. This was Newburgh High School circa 1924.
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- Several buildings which are still standing in the old section of Newburgh were built by A.M. Phelps. A Vermonter of English decent, Mr. Phelps, came to Newburgh in 1830 and was in the mercantile and shipping business nearly 50 years.
- The upper wooden structure of the building was the house proper and was sitting on a hill. The brick ground floor was added when the hill was cut away in 1837 in order to build Jennings Street and lower State Street. Pictured circa 1837.
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