The story
Read it all →How Newcastle Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Newcastle Township.
The John Haimbaugh Round Barn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
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History · Newcastle Township
Newcastle Township’s history is mostly unwritten
The public archives hold no old photos of Newcastle Township yet. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
0old photos & papers
1historic places
What stands out about Newcastle Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
★ What stands out · Help out
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Newcastle Township’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds
Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Bloomingsburg
Talma
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Talma
5cemeteries and burying grounds inside Newcastle Township
HamlettMeredithReichterSycamore Memorial ParkYellow Creek
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Timeline
Newcastle Township, 1851 to 1907
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1851Post officeThe Bloomingsburg post office opens
- 1896Post officeThe Bloomingsburg post office closes
- 1896Post officeThe Talma post office opens
- 20th century
- 1907Post officeThe Talma post office closes
By decade
No old photos in the archives yet
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your albumOn the National Register
1 historic place in Newcastle Township
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1993
Haimbaugh, John, Round Barn
in Indiana
#288
by listings
Buildings
Architectural styles listings
True-circular Barn1
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Stories next door
History across the town line
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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From the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.