NEWBERG

city, Yamhill county, northwestern Oregon, U.S. It lies in the Willamette River valley, just 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, nuts, and paper and wood products. It is the seat of George Fox College, established in 1885 as Friends Pacific Academy; the future American president Herbert Hoover was in the first graduating class of 1888. Minthorn House, where Hoover lived with his uncle, has been restored. The Champoeg State Park, where settlers organized the first effective government (1843) in the future state, is nearby. Inc. 1893. Pop. (1990) 13,086.