Newcastle’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Newcastle. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Newcastle was founded in 1889 as a mining town and a railroad town as the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad expanded westward. It is named after Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England, an important coal shipping port. President Teddy Roosevelt visited Newcastle in 1903.
U.S. Route 85 once ran south from the city to the east of the rail track, crossing them over a five span wide flange steel girder bridge constructed in 1929. The portion of US Hwy 85 from Newcastle to just south of the bridge was realigned to the west bypassing the bridge in 1963.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Newcastle’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewMain Street, 1870: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Newcastle
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Newcastle, decade by decade
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Main Street (1870) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (5) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.