HeyJaredNewburg Stories
Exploring the history of Hickory Grove Township and the town of Newburg in Jasper County, Iowa.
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To be clear, Newburg never had an airport. It never had so much as a dirt landing strip.1 But what goes up must come down, and, sometimes, it comes down near Newburg. Or it comes down and returns to Newburg. Three cases in point:Billy RobinsonOn the afternoon of 29 April 1915, Grinnell’s pioneering aviator Billy Robinson was flying Ralph McBride, of McBride’s Corner Drug Store in Newton, from Grinnell to Marshalltown. The pair were flying 70 miles per hour a thousand feet above Newburg when the
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