Newberg

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...