Newberg Sites

As indicated by the Newberg Area Historical Society marker on site, a $15,000 Public Works Administration (PWA) grant allowed the Newberg School District to secure a $35,000 bond to build this brick building, occupied currently by the Chehalem Cultural Center. The New Deal era Central School (1935) replaced a wooden school building at the same location that dated from 1889. As early as 1933, the structure was declared a fire hazard. Newberg voters approved raising funds for the new school in 1934 with the necessary bond secured by the PWA grant. H. J. Settergren, a Portland area contractor, built the new Central...

The historic post office in Newberg, Oregon was constructed in 1936 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork inside, is still in use today.

This Section of Fine Arts mural is titled "Early Mail Carriers of the West" and was painted by Rockwell Carey for the historic Newberg post office in 1937.