Newburgh, Indiana

Newburgh is a town in Ohio Township, Warrick County, Indiana, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 3,325 at the 2010 census.
Newburgh is Floating down the Ohio River by flatboat, John Sprinkle landed here in the spring of 1803, thirteen years before Indiana entered the Union as the 19th state. Sprinkle started the first settlement in what is now Warrick County. Originally called Sprinklesburg, later Newburgh, the community grew to be the largest riverport between Cincinnati and New Orleans by 1850.

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• Newburgh is the oldest town in Warrick County.
• The first Cumberland Presbyterian Church north of the Mason-Dixon line was organized here in 1826.
• Newburgh captured - July 18, 1862. The first town north of the Mason-Dixon Line to be captured by the Confederate forces during the War Between the States. Brig. General Adam R. Johnson, with a guerrilla band, crossed the Ohio River and confiscated supplies and ammunition without a shot being fired.