My friends - Today, we are going over to Calloway County to review of the history of the little town of Newberg, which no longer exists, but which, at one time, was a thriving community. The sketch below was written in the 1930's by the late John C. Waters, whom I had the privilege of knowing prior to his untimely death in the late 1960's. Tomorrow, we will look at an additional person or point of interest in the JP region. -B ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Calloway County - "Newberg 'On the Tennessee'" - by John C. Waters "Newberg, located on the Tennessee River, in southeast Calloway County, is one of the oldest continued business places in the county. It came into prominence as an important shipping place during the Civil War. During that war, gun boats of the Federal Fleet scattered a few shells on and around this serene little village, and a cannonball was shot directly through the home of Capt. Levi Williams. Grant's transports wooded here on his trip up the river(Tennessee) to the Battle of Shiloh. They were two days in passing up the river,and during this time the sky was black with smoke, and the river was filled with boats of soldiers. Previous to the war, Newberg was known as Warberg. After the war, the post office went down, and the village was renamed Blood. In 1921, the place was named again, by order of the post office department. At this time, it was given the name of Newberg, which it has held ever since. The name 'Blood' came about by reason, that during the war it was a great crossing place of 'guerilla' parties, and several lost their lives there at the hands of the Home Guards. Near there is a burial plot where lie buried the bodies of these 'guerilla' bands. Many lost their lives in swimming their horses across the river. Newberg was the center of the smuggling of goods from the Cumberland River, across the Tennessee River to all points in West Kentucky. The men worked during the night, and sunk their crafts in daytime to keep them from being destroyed by the soldiers. During the war, gunboats destroyed 1000 barrels of salt at this place. At the time it was destroyed, salt on the east side of the river was worth twenty-five dollars a barrel. After it was ferried across the river, it was worth fifty dollars a barrel in West Kentucky. Grim reminders of the past are the large cannon balls unearthed at intervals in the vicinity of Newberg. It was in direct line of the gunboats during the war. Newberg figuratively speaking is above high water mark of the Tennessee River. Only once in its history has it been molested with the waters of that stream, and that was during 1897." [Note: This was written before the TVA's Kentucky Dam Project was carried out, which placed the present location of Newberg under the waters of the Kentucky Lake - the guerilla cemetery was moved during that dam project.] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

I've come across Knight KY... several times. Apparently Calloway Co. flooded by TVA to make KY Lake. Does anyone have/know its history? frankie moody On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 09:00 PM, Bill Utterback wrote: > My friends - > > Today, we are going over to Calloway County to review of the history > of the little town of Newberg, which no longer exists, but which, at > one time, was a thriving community. > The sketch below was written in the 1930's by the late John C. Waters, > whom I had the privilege of knowing prior to his untimely death in the > late 1960's. > > Tomorrow, we will look at an additional person or point of interest in > the JP region. > > -B > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Calloway County - "Newberg 'On the Tennessee'" - by John C. Waters > > "Newberg, located on the Tennessee River, in southeast Calloway > County, is one of the oldest continued business places in the county. > It came into prominence as an important shipping place during the > Civil War. During that war, gun boats of the Federal Fleet scattered a > few shells on and around this serene little village, and a cannonball > was shot directly through the home of Capt. Levi Williams. Grant's > transports wooded here on his trip up the river(Tennessee) to the > Battle of Shiloh. They were two days in passing up the river,and > during this time the sky was black with smoke, and the river was > filled with boats of soldiers. > Previous to the war, Newberg was known as Warberg. After the war, the > post office went down, and the village was renamed Blood. In 1921, the > place was named again, by order of the post office department. At this > time, it was given the name of Newberg, which it has held ever since. > The name 'Blood' came about by reason, that during the war it was a > great crossing place of 'guerilla' parties, and several lost their > lives there at the hands of the Home Guards. Near there is a burial > plot where lie buried the bodies of these 'guerilla' bands. Many lost > their lives in swimming their horses across the river. > Newberg was the center of the smuggling of goods from the Cumberland > River, across the Tennessee River to all points in West Kentucky. The > men worked during the night, and sunk their crafts in daytime to keep > them from being destroyed by the soldiers. During the war, gunboats > destroyed 1000 barrels of salt at this place. At the time it was > destroyed, salt on the east side of the river was worth twenty-five > dollars a barrel. After it was ferried across the river, it was worth > fifty dollars a barrel in West Kentucky. Grim reminders of the past > are the large cannon balls unearthed at intervals in the vicinity of > Newberg. It was in direct line of the gunboats during the war. Newberg > figuratively speaking is above high water mark of the Tennessee River. > Only once in its history has it been molested with the waters of that > stream, and that was during 1897." > > [Note: This was written before the TVA's Kentucky Dam Project was > carried out, which placed the present location of Newberg under the > waters of the Kentucky Lake - the guerilla cemetery was moved during > that dam project.] > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > ==== KYJacksonPurchase Mailing List ==== > New Subscribers are invited to post the surnames which they are > researching on the JP Surnames Database website at > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kyjpsurnames/ > Contact the webmaster to add your e-mail address and surnames to the > site. > > "Baghdad's rumor mill says that not only is Saddam Hussein alive and well, but that he has kidnapped the Scrabble (copyright til you die) expert he had hired to prepare him for a one-time, winner-takes-all, challenge game with President George Dubya Bush. While the hail of bombs and rockets and mortar and hellfire forced Hussein to cancel the previously scheduled game, we understand he's frantically trying to set up yet another, a last-ditch effort to win his fiefdom back from the Americans. Some who claim personal knowledge say he's completed his 7s and is working on his 8s. The office of the U. S. president has responded to queries with obvious disdain, although one report indicates an elementary level spelling book fell to the ground as the first family recently dehelicoptered from a trip to Camp David. I'm safe, as I'm using my astral self to negotiate the sticks and stones of the postwar; I would like to thank the good people of Scrabble(copyright til you die)dom for their many expressions of concern for my safety." Thoreau Maskin. "Report from an alleged Iraqi insider." May 7, 2003. Courtesy Spuemout Press. P. O. Box 666. Hell MI 48169. Copyright© 2003. all rights reserved. (Violators will be taken to and mercilessly pummelled by egoconcentric players who have been sentenced to gameland purgatory and who are beating their way to the pearly gates)