Newburgh, Maine

Penobscot county. This is a good township of land, 54 miles N.E. from Augusta and 14 S.E. from Bangor. Incorporated, 1819. Population, 1830, 626; 1837, 867. Watered by a branch of Sowadabscook. Wheat crop, 1837, 5,041 bushels.

Hayward's New England Gazetteer (1839)