Cuyahoga County OHGenWeb

Newburgh Township

Photos courtesy of Slavic Village Historical Society. The first is the Cataract House in 1867 at Broadway and South Miles Avenue. Second is the Northern Ohio Lunatic Asylum, (also known as Cleveland State Hospital or Turney Tech), built 1854, demolished in 1977. It was located in what is today Garfield Park Reservation.

Newburgh Township, when originally surveyed, was known as Township 7 in Range 12 of the Connecticut New Western Reserve. The governmental body was formed in 1814. What was the township contains at least parts of Brooklyn Heights, Cleveland, Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga Heights, Garfield Heights, Newburgh Heights, and Shaker Heights. (Information from Wikipedia)

• History of Newburg Township by Bill Radecker.
  
  
• Newburgh Township History articles by S. J. Kelly from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1936-1944
  Transcribed by Laura Hine.
  
  
• Newburgh Township Images from History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio by Crisfield Johnson, 1879 (offsite at Cuyahoga West Chapter OGS) -
  https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ohcwogs/county.htm
  
  
• Newburgh Township History from A History of Cuyahoga County and the City of Cleveland by William R. Coates, 1924 -
  https://archive.org/details/historyofcuyahog01coat_0/page/274/mode/2up
  
  
• Newburgh Township Excerpt from Memorial to the Pioneer Women of the Western Reserve by Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham, Under the Auspices of The Executive Committee of the Woman’s Department of the Cleveland Centennial Commission, 1896. Parts 1-4. Transcribed by Betty Ralph.
  https://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/Cities/NewburghTwpPWWR.pdf
  
  All four parts with many other locations are also viewable at:
  https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2719949?availability=Las%20Vegas%20Nevada%20FamilySearch%20Library
  
  
• Transcripts of most of the above are here.
  
  
• https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1672&context=etdarchivebr>
  
• Slavic Village Historical Society has MANY pictures and historical sketches of various locations in Newburgh Township
  http://www.slavicvillagehistory.org/
  
  
• Good People of Newburgh by Judith A. MacKeigan
  https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1672&context=etdarchivehe