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Newberg, city, Yamhill county, northwestern Oregon, U.S. It lies in the Willamette River valley, southwest of Portland. Founded in 1869 as the first Quaker settlement in the Pacific Northwest, it was named by one of the settlers for his German birthplace. The city is now the trading, processing, and shipping centre for an area producing lumber, fruit, and paper and wood products; the area also yields about 90 percent of the U.S. hazelnut crop and is the centre of an important wine-making industry. It is the seat of George Fox University, established in 1885 as Friends Pacific Academy; the future American president Herbert Hoover was in the first graduating class of 1888. Hoover-Minthorn House (1881), where the orphaned Hoover lived with his uncle, has been restored. Nearby Champoeg State Heritage Area, once the site of a Kalapuya Indian village, is the location at which settlers organized the first effective government (1843) in the future state. Inc. 1889. Pop. (2000) 18,064; (2010) 22,068.

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