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Newbern is an incorporated town in Dyer County in northwest Tennessee.

Its first settlers arrived in the 1840s, and Owen Philly, who is credited with building the town's first house and store, is believed to have named it after his birthplace, New Bern, North Carolina.

Newbern was incorporated in 1857–58.

The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway completed a rail line from Memphis to Newbern in 1882, and the Illinois Central Railroad later took over operation of the line and its depot.

The 2020 census counted 3,349 people, 1,344 households, and 762 families in Newbern, and the town's median age was 35.7 years.

The 2020 census counted 1,483 housing units in Newbern, about 9 percent of them vacant.

The Illinois Central depot at 108 Jefferson Street, built in 1920 after a fire destroyed its predecessor the year before, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Since April 6, 1992, the restored depot has served as an Amtrak station — one of only two in Tennessee — where the City of New Orleans stops twice daily between Chicago and New Orleans as an unstaffed flag stop.

The depot also houses the Newbern Depot and Railroad Museum, which exhibits railroad tools, uniforms, schedules, photographs, and model trains.

The station formally serves both Newbern and nearby Dyersburg, the Dyer County seat about 10 miles to the southwest, and is known as the Newbern–Dyersburg station.