Newburgh Time Travel Walking Tour

Interactive Self-Guided Tour of Historic Newburgh, Indiana

Brought to you by the Newburgh Museum | Funded by Indiana Humanities – Historic Preservation Education Grant 2024

Newburgh’s unique river town heritage and historic architecture are admired by many locals and passersby – this has been the case for over two centuries now. On your stroll through downtown, you may see some historically designed signs with QR codes to scan – quite intriguing for the curious mind, what shall it be? Through this interactive project, we are able to bring the museum to the streets and anyone with a camera cellphone can travel back in time to their exact destination over 100 years ago!

QR Code Sign Links:

• Sign 1:  ES&N Traction Line – May 22, 1911

• Sign 2: Grim Reapers Clubhouse – 1977

• Sign 3:  Newburgh Ferry Co. – 1910

• Sign 4:  John S Hopkins & Joe Fowler Steamboats – circa 1900

• Sign 5:  Store Boat – circa mid to late 1800s

• Sign 6:  French’s New Sensations Showboat – 1899

• Sign 7:  Newburgh Tobacco Co. – 1937

• Sign 8:  14 W Jennings – 1922

• Sign 9:  Phelps-Sargeant Block – 1907

• Sign 10:  The Exchange Hotel – 1862

• Sign 11:  The Citizen’s Bank – circa 1907

• Sign 12:  State Street – circa early 1900s

• Sign 13:  Cumberland Presbyterian Church – 1940

• Sign 14:  Newburgh Graded School – circa 1907

• Sign 15:  R.S. Fowler’s Livery Stable – circa late 1800s to early 1900s