This week we have another 34 newspaper titles up on DigitalNC, including four from Carthage, North Carolina: Former home to the Tyson & Jones Buggy Company.

The “Jones” of the Tyson & Jones Buggy Company was William T. Jones, who was born into slavery and became one of the most well-respected and wealthiest businessmen in Carthage. Born near Elizabethtown in 1833, his father was a plantation owner and his mother was an enslaved person. Prior to the Civil War, he was given his freedom and moved to Fayetteville to work as a painter for a carriage company. It was there that his work was noticed by Thomas Tyson, who convinced him to come to Carthage to work for his fledgling operation in 1857, and by 1859 Jones was made a partner in that company. In 1861, Jones joined the Confederate Army and was subsequently captured by Union forces. While imprisoned at Fort Delaware, Jones began making moonshine from potato peelings and bread crusts and selling it to the Union guards. After Sherman’s March left much of the area devastated, it was the Jones’ moonshine money that allowed the Tyson & Jones Buggy Company to restart production, employing many struggling locals and helping to restart the local economy.

Even though Jones was a captain of industry, North Carolina House of Representatives candidate, and Sunday School teacher with a legacy that lives on in Carthage, it was not widely acknowledged that he wasn’t White. It wasn’t until recently that him being a Black man was recognized as fact and his full story was told.

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 Central Times (Dunn, N.C.) – 1892-1894
• The Albemarle Chronicle (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1912
• The Chronicle (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1912-1915
• Daily Concord Standard (Concord, N.C.) – 1898-1899
• The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.) – 1899
• Moore Gazette (Carthage, N.C.) – 1881-1885
• The Carthaginian (Carthage, N.C.) – 1878
• Moore Index (Carthage, N.C.) – 1879-1880
• The Southern Protectionist (Carthage, N.C.) – 1888
• The Sampson Democrat (Clinton, N.C.) – 1920-1921
• The High Point Enterprise (High Point, N.C.) – 1893-1915
• Daily Enterprise (High Point, N.C.) – 1906-1908
• The Patriot and Times (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1869
• The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1869-1918
• Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1880
• The Daily Evening Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1890
• The Watchman and Harbinger (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1863-1864
• The New North State (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1878
• The North State (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1878-1885
• The Beacon (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1880
• The Rowan Record (China Grove, N.C.) – 1909-1919
• China Grove Record (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1920-1925
• Jackson County Journal (Sylva, N.C.) – 1913-1919
• The Ansonian (Wadesboro, N.C.) – 1907-1908
• The Pender Chronicle (Burgaw, N.C.) – 1912-1943
• Harnett County News (Lillington, N.C.) – 1919-1922
• Goldsboro’ News (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1867-1873
• Goldsboro Daily Messenger (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1869
• Goldsboro Daily Argus (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1911
• The Evening Review (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1875-1877
• The Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1881
• The Tribune (Henderson, N.C.) – 1873-1876
• The Henderson Pioneer (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1866-1867
• The Daily Herald (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1911-1912

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 24 titles up on DigitalNC, including one of the state’s oldest papers: The State Gazette of North-Carolina!

The State Gazette was founded by Abraham Hodge and Andrew Blanchard in 1785. Hodge, born 1755 in the colony of New York, worked as a patriot printer during the American Revolution and even operated George Washington’s traveling press at Valley Forge in 1778. While stationed there, he printed official orders, commissions, and recruitment posters for the Continental Army. Seeking a warmer climate after the war, Hodge relocated to Halifax, N.C., where he would go on to own printing presses in Edenton, Halifax, Fayetteville, and New Bern. In addition to newspapers, he was named printer of the North Carolina General Assembly and printed the state’s laws in 1786. He was also one of the first people to contribute to the library of The University of North Carolina.

March 5, 1795 issue of The State Gazette of North-Carolina. Less than a month after The University of North Carolina opened its doors to students.

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 Daily Bulletin (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1862-1863
• Goldsboro Messenger (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1880-1887
• The Greensborough Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1851-1856
• The Patriot and Flag (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1857-1858
• The Greensborough Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1858-1868
• The Patriot and Times (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1868
• The Little Ad (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1860
• The North Carolina Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1878-1880
• The State Gazette of North-Carolina (New Bern, N.C.) – 1787-1796
• The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.) – 1912-1914
• Eastern Courier (Hertford, N.C.) – 1897-1898
• Economist and Falcon (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1891-1893
• Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1900-1902
• The Standard (Concord, N.C.) – 1896-1899
• The Daily Standard (Concord, N.C.) – 1892
• The Concord Times (Concord, N.C.) – 1910-1912
• The Evening Tribune (Concord, N.C.) – 1906-1907
• The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.) – 1912-1923
• The Davie Record (Mocksville, N.C.) – 1919-1920
• The Anglo-Saxon (Rockingham, N.C.) – 1899-1901
• Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1896
• The Reporter and Post (Danbury, N.C.) – 1882-1884
• The Danbury Reporter-Post (Danbury, N.C.) – 1884-1891
• The Danbury Reporter (Danbury, N.C.) – 1894-1917

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.

Another 32 newspaper titles are up on DigitalNC this week! Three of these titles are from North Carolina towns that either changed their names or just don’t exist anymore.

First, we have the North Carolina National from Company Shops, North Carolina. Company Shops was a community formed around the railroad car construction and maintenance industry in Alamance County, between Graham and Gibsonville. Due to growing anti-railroad sentiments, the community of Company Shops decided to appoint a committee to change the name of the town in 1887. This committee decided on the name ‘Burlington.’

Next up is Our Home from Beaver Dam, North Carolina. It’s hard to determine exactly where Beaver Dam would have been, but knowing that the paper is from Union County, it seems possible that it was located near Beaverdam Creek, just south of Wingate and Marshville, North Carolina.

Lastly, we have The Hokeville Express from what was once known as Hokeville, or ‘Lincoln Factory,’ North Carolina. It seems likely that the community was named after the affluent Hoke family of Lincolnton. Col. John Hoke was one of the owners of the profitable Lincoln Cotton Mills. Col. Hoke died in 1845 and passed ownership on to his son, also named John Hoke. The factory burned down in 1862, and the following year the Confederate Army began constructing a laboratory on the site to manufacture medicines, such as ether, chloroform, and opiates. Since then the community has gone by the name ‘Laboratory.’

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 Daily Standard (Concord, N.C.) – 1893-1895
• Daily Concord Standard (Concord, N.C.) – 1895-1902
• Southern Voice (Bethel, N.C.) – 1890
• Berea Gazette (Berea, N.C.) – 1877-1878
• North Carolina National (Company Shops, N.C.) – 1882
• The Alliance Weekly (Hillsborough, N.C.) – 1896
• Hillsborough Plaindealer (Hillsborough, N.C.) – 1861
• North Carolina Democrat (Hillsborough, N.C.) – 1849-1850
• The Naked Truth (High Point, N.C.) – 1896
• Farm and Fireside (High Point, N.C.) – 1883
• High Point Reporter (High Point, N.C.) – 1860
• Our Home (Beaver Dam, N.C.) – 1893
• The Progressive Reformer (Kings Mountain, N.C.) – 1896
• The Ashe Reporter (Jefferson, N.C.) – 1892
• The Southern Home (Kernersville, N.C.) – 1887
• The Hokeville Express (Hokeville, N.C.) – 1855
• Gazette (Kinston, N.C.) – 1873
• The Mountaineer (Morganton, N.C.) – 1883
• The Carolina Mountaineer (Morganton, N.C.) – 1883-1884
• The Anglo-Saxon (Rockingham, N.C.) – 1902-1908
• The Ansonian (Polkton, N.C.) – 1874-1876
• Jonesville Enterprise (Jonesville, N.C.) – 1858
• The Rubicon (Yanceyville, N.C.) – 1840
• The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.) – 1910-1918
• The Burlington News (Burlington, N.C.) – 1900
• New Berne Weekly Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1908-1910
• The Anson Times (Wadesboro, N.C.) – 1881-1886
• The Moore County News (Carthage, N.C.) – 1920-1922
• The Canton Enterprise (Canton, N.C.) – 1920-1942
• The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.) – 1904-1922
• The Times (Concord, N.C.) – 1885-1894
• The Concord Times (Concord, N.C.) – 1894-1922

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.