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This week we have another 30 newspaper titles up on DigitalNC! In the September 3, 1891 issue of Boone’s Watauga Democrat we have an article describing the terrible train wreck of Bostian’s Bridge in Statesville. This fatal accident sparked a legendary North Carolina ghost story, but perhaps even scarier are the boogeymen railroad companies would often create to avoid accountability: train wreckers.
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Watauga Democrat, September 3, 1891
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News and Observer, July 7, 1898
By 1891 the railroad system in America had exploded, allowing for easier cross-country travel and bringing with it fresh new paranoia about disasters and scary strangers coming to your town. Blaming a wreck on some shady character was a lot easier than paying a fortune on settlements due to negligence. Almost immediately after the August 27, 1891 accident, the Richmond & Danville Railroad Company put out ads offering a $10,000 reward for the apprehension of the perpetrator, leading to many being accused and arrested (conveniently with the help of a railroad detective).
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News & Observer, September 4, 1891
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Greensboro Workman, September 16, 1891
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Asheville Citizen, October 15, 1891
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Wilmington Messenger, February 3, 1892
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News & Observer, August 29, 1897
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Durham Daily Globe, September 26, 1891
The editor at Statesville’s Landmark provides us with an incredibly detailed account of the accident and the recovery effort, complete with interviews from survivors and witnesses where they describe rotten cross-ties and rail workers throwing this evidence into the creek below the bridge. Many of those interviewed make a point to mention that there were no signs of robbery after the crash, which doesn’t exactly support the idea of this being some dastardly deed by a bandit.
Over the next year, we’ll be adding millions of newspaper images to DigitalNC. These images were originally digitized a number of years ago in a partnership with Newspapers.com. That project focused on scanning microfilmed papers published before 1923 held by the North Carolina Collection in Wilson Special Collections Library. While you can currently search all of those pre-1923 issues on Newspapers.com, over the next year we will also make them available in our newspaper database as well. This will allow you to search that content alongside the 2 million pages already on our site – all completely open access and free to use.
This week’s additions include:
Asheville
Boone
Burlington
Chapel Hill
Durham
Fayetteville
Fairfield
Gastonia
Holly Springs
Jackson
Kinston
Lexington
Lincolnton
Pittsboro
Raleigh
Salisbury
Tarboro
Winston
If you want to see all of the newspapers we have available on DigitalNC, you can find them here. Thanks to UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries for permission to and support for adding all of this content as well as the content to come. We also thank the North Caroliniana Society for providing funding to support staff working on this project.
This week we have tens of thousands of issues up on DigitalNC! In this batch we have over 1,000 issues of The High Point Enterprise and Lenoir News-Topic, more than 4,000 issues of The Charlotte Observer and The News & Observer, 5,000 issues of the Goldsboro Daily Argus, over 5,500 issues of The Kinston Free Press, 7,000 issues of the Asheville Citizen, and more!
Over the next year, we’ll be adding millions of newspaper images to DigitalNC. These images were originally digitized a number of years ago in a partnership with Newspapers.com. That project focused on scanning microfilmed papers published before 1923 held by the North Carolina Collection in Wilson Special Collections Library. While you can currently search all of those pre-1923 issues on Newspapers.com, over the next year we will also make them available in our newspaper database as well. This will allow you to search that content alongside the 2 million pages already on our site – all completely open access and free to use.
This week’s additions include:
Asheville
Charlotte
Concord
Davidson
Durham
Edenton
Elizabeth City
Elkin
Fayetteville
Gastonia
Goldsboro
Graham
Greensboro
Halifax
Hickory
High Point
Kinston
Lenoir
Raleigh
Shelby
Wilmington
If you want to see all of the newspapers we have available on DigitalNC, you can find them here. Thanks to UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries for permission to and support for adding all of this content as well as the content to come. We also thank the North Caroliniana Society for providing funding to support staff working on this project.
This week we have another 60 titles from all over the state up on DigitalNC, including a little piece of North Carolina railroad history!
On the second page of the January 15th, 1833 issue of the Fayetteville Observer, you’ll find a list of all the legislation enacted by the North Carolina General Assembly during the 1832-1833 session. One of these acts is the incorporation of the company that built North Carolina’s first functional railroad: The Experimental Rail Road Company of Raleigh.
Fayetteville Observer, January 15, 1833
The one and one-quarter mile rail line extended from the Capitol Building, which had burned in 1831, to a quarry just east of Raleigh. When the horse-drawn rail carts weren’t transporting the stone used to rebuild the Capitol, people could ride the line in “pleasure cars” for a 25 cent fare. The line cost $2,700 to construct, which would be roughly $91,000 in 2022.
Over the next year, we’ll be adding millions of newspaper images to DigitalNC. These images were originally digitized a number of years ago in a partnership with Newspapers.com. That project focused on scanning microfilmed papers published before 1923 held by the North Carolina Collection in Wilson Special Collections Library. While you can currently search all of those pre-1923 issues on Newspapers.com, over the next year we will also make them available in our newspaper database as well. This will allow you to search that content alongside the 2 million pages already on our site – all completely open access and free to use.
This week’s additions include:
- The North Carolina Prohibitionist (Bush Hill, N.C.) – 1886-1888
- The Progress (Enfield, N.C.) – 1908-1922
- The North-Carolina Journal (Halifax, N.C.) – 1792-1810
- The News Reporter (Littleton, N.C.) – 1897-1923
- The Franklin Courier (Louisburg, N.C.) – 1872-1874
- The Madison Enterprise (Madison, N.C.) – 1873-1874
- The Monroe Journal (Monroe, N.C.) – 1923
- The Iredell Gazette (Mooresville, N.C.) – 1880
- The Morganton Herald (Morganton, N.C.) – 1891-1901
- Surry Visitor (Mount Airy, N.C.) – 1874-1876
- Cherokee Herald (Murphy, N.C.) – 1874-1876
- Person County Courier (Roxboro, N.C.) – 1890-1892
- North Carolina Argus (Wadesboro, N.C.) – 1848-1876
- Mecklenburg Times (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1889-1897
- The North Carolina Whig (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1863
- King’s Dollar Daily (Greenville, N.C.) – 1904
- King’s Weekly (Greenville, N.C.) – 1894-1909
- McDowell Democrat (Marion, N.C.) – 1905-1909
- Marion Progress (Marion, N.C.) – 1909-1922
- The Stanly Banner (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1876
- The Stanly Observer (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1884
- The Stanly News (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1892-1893
- The Caldwell Messenger (Lenoir, N.C.) – 1875-1876
- The Semi-Weekly News (Lenoir, N.C.) – 1900
- The Weekly News (Lenoir, N.C.) – 1900-1902
- The Magnolia Monitor (Magnolia, N.C.) – 1873-1876
- The Duplin Record (Magnolia, N.C.) – 1874-1875
- The Weekly Record (Magnolia, N.C.) – 1876-1877
- The Central (Lexington, N.C.) – 1876
- Lexington and Yadkin Flag (Lexington, N.C.) – 1855-1856
- The Lexington Herald (Lexington, N.C.) – 1915-1917
- The North State (Lexington, N.C.) – 1904-1908
- Murfreesboro Enquirer (Murfreesboro, N.C.) – 1876-1878
- The Albemarle Enquirer (Murfreesboro, N.C.) – 1878-1881
- The Hornets’ Nest (Murfreesboro, N.C.) – 1812-1813
- Carolina Chronicle (Murfreesboro, N.C.) – 1827
- Milton Intelligencer (Milton, N.C.) – 1819
- Milton Spectator (Milton, N.C.) – 1832-1839
- The Milton Chronicle (Milton, N.C.) – 1841-1888
- Milton Gazette & Roanoke Advertiser (Milton, N.C.) – 1824-1831
- The Milton Spectator (Milton, N.C.) – 1854
- The Lincoln Democrat (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1895-1896
- The Lincoln Journal (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1898-1901
- The Lincoln Courier (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1891
- Lincoln Transcript (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1836
- The Western Whig Banner (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1840
- Lincoln Progress (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1873-1882
- Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1903
- The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1903-1905
- Daily Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1905-1907
- North Carolina Advocate (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1833
- The Intelligencer, and Nag’s Head Advocate (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1840-1841
- The Elizabeth-City Gazette, and Public Advertiser (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1808
- Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1833
- The Public Spirit (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1876
- The News (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1865
- The Fayetteville Daily News (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1865
- The Weekly Courier (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1860
- Fayetteville Examiner (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1880-1883
- Daily Telegraph (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1865
If you want to see all of the newspapers we have available on DigitalNC, you can find them here. Thanks to UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries for permission to and support for adding all of this content as well as the content to come. We also thank the North Caroliniana Society for providing funding to support staff working on this project.
This week we have another 40 titles up on DigitalNC! In this batch we have special editions of Morganton’s The News-Herald that detail the destruction caused to Western North Carolina by “The Great Flood of 1916.”
In July of 1916, two hurricanes hit Western Carolina within a week of each other. The first one came from the Gulf Coast and stalled over the region from the 8th until the 10th, and the second made landfall in South Carolina, reached the mountains on the 15th, and dumped an astounding 22 inches of rain in a 24 hour period.
Asheville Grocery, 1916. Image via ourstate.com
After the storms had passed, the Swannanoa River was a mile wide, the French Broad was four times its normal width, there were over 300 landslides, and the town of Hendersonville was surrounded by a lake. At least 80 people died in the flooding, but since so many people lived in rural areas, the exact number is unknown.
July 18, 1916
July 19, 1916
July 20, 1916
Over the next year, we’ll be adding millions of newspaper images to DigitalNC. These images were originally digitized a number of years ago in a partnership with Newspapers.com. That project focused on scanning microfilmed papers published before 1923 held by the North Carolina Collection in Wilson Special Collections Library. While you can currently search all of those pre-1923 issues on Newspapers.com, over the next year we will also make them available in our newspaper database as well. This will allow you to search that content alongside the 2 million pages already on our site – all completely open access and free to use.
This week’s additions include:
- The Liberty Register (Liberty, N.C.) – 1899-1900
- The Kernersville News (Kernersville, N.C.) – 1883-1888
- Jonesboro Leader (Jonesboro, N.C.) – 1888-1892
- Daily Progress (New Bern, N.C.) – 1860
- The Graphic (Nashville, N.C.) – 1899-1925
- The Constitution (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1880
- The Union Labor Record (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1922-1937
- The Cottage Visitor (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1869
- Carolina Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1831-1832
- The Second Century (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1881
- The News-Herald (Morganton, N.C.) – 1902-1922
- The Greenville Index (Greenville, N.C.) – 1894
- Goldsboro Weekly Argus (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1914-1915
- The Albemarle Enquirer (Murfreesboro, N.C.) – 1886
- Murfreesboro Index (Murfreesboro, N.C.) – 1887-1896
- Piedmont Press (Hickory, N.C.) – 1873-1887
- The Hickory Press (Hickory, N.C.) – 1897-1900
- Randolph Regulator (Asheboro, N.C.) – 1876-1879
- The Randolph Sun (Asheboro, N.C.) – 1878
- North Carolina Bulletin (Asheboro, N.C.) – 1856-1857
- The New North State (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1871-1877
- Greensboro North State (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1886-1891
- The Daily Workman (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1885-1889
- Greensboro Telegram (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1910-1911
- The Weekly Index (Henderson, N.C.) – 1868-1869
- The Henderson Index (Henderson, N.C.) – 1870
- The Hustler (Henderson, N.C.) – 1899
- Evening Herald (Henderson, N.C.) – 1900
- The Henderson News (Henderson, N.C.) – 1887-1888
- The Vance Farmer (Henderson, N.C.) – 1892
- Henderson Daily Dispatch (Henderson, N.C.) – 1916-1923
- Albemarle Sentinel (Edenton, N.C.) – 1839-1840
- Carolina Miscellany (Edenton, N.C.) – 1832
- North-Carolina Miscellany (Edenton, N.C.) – 1833
- The Edenton Clarion (Edenton, N.C.) – 1880-1881
- Edenton Sentinel, and Albemarle Intelligencer (Edenton, N.C.) – 1841
- Albemarle Bulletin (Edenton, N.C.) – 1850-1851
- American Banner (Edenton, N.C.) – 1856
- The Express (Edenton, N.C.) – 1859
- Eastern Courier (Edenton, N.C.) – 1900
If you want to see all of the newspapers we have available on DigitalNC, you can find them here. Thanks to UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries for permission to and support for adding all of this content as well as the content to come. We also thank the North Caroliniana Society for providing funding to support staff working on this project.
This week we have an astounding 80 titles up on DigitalNC! These papers span all across the state, covering 22 of North Carolina’s 100 counties! We have papers from smaller communities, like The Free Press from the town of Forest City (Fun fact: Forest City was originally named “Burnt Chimney” after a house that burned own in the area, leaving only a charred chimney behind). We also have well-established papers from Raleigh, such as The Raleigh Times and Evening Visitor, giving us a cross section of the entire state.
Over the next year, we’ll be adding millions of newspaper images to DigitalNC. These images were originally digitized a number of years ago in a partnership with Newspapers.com. That project focused on scanning microfilmed papers published before 1923 held by the North Carolina Collection in Wilson Special Collections Library. While you can currently search all of those pre-1923 issues on Newspapers.com, over the next year we will also make them available in our newspaper database as well. This will allow you to search that content alongside the 2 million pages already on our site – all completely open access and free to use.
This week’s additions include:
- Raleigh Christian Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1918-1919
- The Davidson Dispatch (Lexington, N.C.) – 1886-1902
- The Dispatch (Lexington, N.C.) – 1902-1922
- Carolina Messenger (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1869-1877
- Goldsboro Messenger (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1878-1883
- The Daily Capital (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1891
- The Daily Call (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1889-1896
- The Hayseeder (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1896-1898
- The Daily Dispatch (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1880
- Daily Morning Record (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1881
- Greensboro Evening Telegram (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1897-1900
- Greensboro Telegram (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1900-1910
- Greenville Daily News (Greenville, N.C.) – 1917-1920
- Greenville News (Greenville, N.C.) – 1920-1921
- North Carolina Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1888
- The Live Giraffe (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1852-1859
- The Democratic Press (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1859-1860
- The Daily Democratic Press (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1860
- Hale’s Weekly (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1879-1880
- The Golden Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1891
- State Prohibition Organ (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1881
- The Advertiser (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1893
- Beans (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1887
- Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1897-1900
- The Daily Press (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1894-1895
- The Press-Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1896
- The Times-Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1900
- The Raleigh Times and Evening Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1900
- Daily Industrial News (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1905-1909
- Carolina Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1816-1830
- The Franklin Times (Louisburg, N.C.) – 1879-1909
- The Topic (Lenoir, N.C.) – 1882
- The Lenoir Topic (Lenoir, N.C.) – 1882-1898
- The Western North Carolina Times (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1901-1923
- The Free Press (and Forest City Herald) (Forest City, N.C.) – 1915
- The Free Press (Forest City, N.C.) – 1916
- Forest City Courier (Forest City, N.C.) – 1924
- Everything (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1913-1918
- Davidson County News (Lexington, N.C.) – 1897-1898
- The Press and Carolinian (Hickory, N.C.) – 1893-1896
- The Lincoln County News (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1907-1918
- The Catawba County News (Newton, N.C.) – 1911
- The Franklin Press (Franklin, N.C.) – 1903-1906
- The Daily Workman (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1889-1891
- Greensboro Daily Workman (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1891-1892
- Goldsboro Weekly Argus (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1903-1905
- Asheville Daily Gazette (Asheville, N.C.) – 1897-1898
- Asheville Gazette-News (Asheville, N.C.) – 1910-1914
- The Asheville Times (Asheville, N.C.) – 1917
- The Old North State (Beaufort, N.C.) – 1865
- The Sampson Democrat (Clinton, N.C.) – 1892-1901
- The Concord Register (Concord, N.C.) – 1875-1885
- The Democratic Pioneer (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1850-1859
- The Patriot, and Greensborough Palladium (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1827-1829
- Greensborough Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1829-1836
- The Greensborough Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1839-1850
- The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1918-1922
- The Eagle (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1868-1875
- The Concord Sun (Concord, N.C.) – 1876-1877
- The American (Statesville, N.C.) – 1865-1869
- The Statesville American (Statesville, N.C.) – 1870-1886
- The Statesville American and Tobacco Journal (Statesville, N.C.) – 1881
- The Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1872-1890
- Economist and Falcon (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1894-1895
- Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1895-1897
- Asheville News (Asheville, N.C.) – 1851-1865
- The Asheville News and Western Farmer (Asheville, N.C.) – 1868
- The Asheville News and Mountain Farmer (Asheville, N.C.) – 1869
- The Randolph Bulletin (Asheboro, N.C.) – 1905-1915
- The Weekly Register (Asheville, N.C.) – 1884-1894
- The State Register (Asheville, N.C.) – 1895-1896
- The Asheville Register (Asheville, N.C.) – 1899-1900
- The Daily Sun (Asheville, N.C.) – 1888
- The Carthage Blade (Carthage, N.C.) – 1896-1907
- The Dunn Signboard (Dunn, N.C.) – 1887-1888
- The Harnett Courier (Dunn, N.C.) – 1888-1889
- Asheville Weekly Citizen (Asheville, N.C) – 1893-1894
- Asheville Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1894
- The Semi-Weekly Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1901
- The Clinton Reporter (Clinton, N.C.) – 1873-1874
If you want to see all of the newspapers we have available on DigitalNC, you can find them here. Thanks to UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries for permission to and support for adding all of this content as well as the content to come. We also thank the North Caroliniana Society for providing funding to support staff working on this project.
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