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 8^th until the 10^th, and the second made landfall in South Carolina, reached the mountains on the 15^th, 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 almost 30 newspaper titles added to DigitalNC. These titles include a Raleigh paper about agriculture and it’s “kindred arts,” an employee paper for North Carolina shipbuilders during World War II, and plenty of others from Wilmington, Raleigh, and New Bern!

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 are the following:

• The North-Carolina Gazette (New Bern, N.C.) – 1751-1774
• Wilmington Gazette (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1816
• The Newbernian (New Bern, N.C.) – 1849-1853
• The Daily Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1871-1872
• The Daily Era (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1872-1873
• The Carolina Era (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1871
• The Farmer and Mechanic (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1899
• New Berne Times (New Bern, N.C.) – 1873
• The People’s Press and Wilmington Advertiser (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1835-1841
• The Daily Herald (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1856-1857
• The Sun (New Bern, N.C.) – 1908-1914
• Eastern Carolina Republican (New Bern, N.C.) – 1850-1851
• Republican and Patriot (New Bern, N.C.) – 1851-1852
• Daily Progress (New Bern, N.C.) – 1862-1863
• The Democratic Signal (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1843-1844
• North Carolina Christian Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1856-1858
• New Berne Weekly Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1882-1883
• New Bern Semi-Weekly Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1914
• The Daily Wilmington Herald (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1865-1866
• The Daily Dispatch (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1867
• The Evening Dispatch (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1895-1916
• New Berne Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1882
• The Arator (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1855-1857
• The North Carolina Shipbuilder (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1942-1946
• The Star (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1808-1815
• The Star and North Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1816-1834
• Daily Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1875-1884
• Daily State Journal (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1862-1865
• The Raleigh Sentinel (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1876

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.

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 are the following:

1. The Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1867-1901
2. Carolina Centinel (New Bern, N.C.) – 1818-1822
3. The Newbernian (New Bern, N.C.) – 1843-1848
4. Newbern Spectator (New Bern, N.C.) – 1834
5. New Berne Daily Times (New Bern, N.C.) – 1866-1874
6. The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1890-1907
7. The New Era and Commercial Advertiser (New Bern, N.C.) – 1854-1859
8. Daily Progress (New Bern, N.C.) – 1858-1861
9. The Carolina Farmer and Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1871-1874
10. The Daily Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1882-1914
11. The Morning New Bernian (New Bern, N.C.) – 1916-1917
12. The Encyclopedian Instructor and Farmer’s Gazette (Edenton, N.C.) – 1785-1801
13. The Herald of the Union (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1865
14. The Daily Herald (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1854-1861
15. The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1892-1896
16. The New Bern Sun Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1920-1922
17. New Berne Weekly Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1884-1913
18. Saturday Record (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1915-1937
19. North-Carolina Gazette (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1769-1800
20. The Daily Dispatch (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1865-1866
21. The New Bernian (New Bern, N.C.) – 1921-1924
22. North Carolina Christian Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1874-1909
23. The Daily Progress (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1862-1864
24. The Raleigh News (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1872-1880
25. The Friend of Temperance (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1868-1879
26. Newbern Sentinel (New Bern, N.C.) – 1834-1837
27. Weekly Conservative (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1864-1865
28. The Farmer and Mechanic (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1905
29. The Raleigh Microcosm (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1838-1843
30. The Morning Post (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1897-1899
31. The Harbinger (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1902-1904
32. The Daily Evening Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1892-1893
33. The Raleigh Evening Times (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1905-1908
34. The Evening Times (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1908-1910
35. The Raleigh Daily Times (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1910
36. The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1906-1922
37. The Wilmington Post (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1867-1877
38. The Evening Dispatch (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1914
39. The Evening Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1879-1881
40. The Friend and Templar (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1876-1880

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.

Starting this week, we will have an update every Friday on new titles being added to our newspaper collection during a year-long project to bring already digitized content from the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) and Newspapers.com onto the DigitalNC newspaper platform. 

This week we are sharing a list of the many new titles on DigitalNC that were brought to us by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) in conjunction with the North Carolina Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries. The NDNP is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress with the intention of creating a vast, searchable database of newspapers and other historical documents. While you can currently search all of the NDNP issues on the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America website, adding those same issues to our  newspaper database will allow you to search that content alongside the other papers on DigitalNC.  The titles in this batch include:

• The Goldsboro Star (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1881-1882
• Fisherman & Farmer (Edenton, N.C.) – 1887-1901
• The Hillsborough Recorder (Hillsborough, N.C.) – 1820-1835
• The Daily Times (Wilson, N.C.) – 1918-1922
• The Wilson Times (Wilson, N.C.) – 1896-1922
• The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.) – 1857-1885
• The Daily Independent (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1936-1937
• The Southland Advocate (Asheville, N.C.) – 1950
• The Southern News (Asheville, N.C.) – 1938
• The Peoples’ Advocate (New Bern, N.C.) – 1886
• African Expositor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1886
• The Independent (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1919-1936
• Goldsboro Weekly Argus (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1892-1909
• Spirit of the Age (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1850-1865
• The Banner-Enterprise (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1883-1884
• Die Suedliche Post (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1869
• Henderson Daily Dispatch (Henderson, N.C.) – 1940-1946
• Hickory Daily Record (Hickory, N.C.) – 1915-1922
• The Chapel Hill Weekly (Chapel Hill, N.C.) – 1923-1963
• The Tri-Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1866-1868
• The North Carolina Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1853-1865
• Newbern Progress (New Bern, N.C.) – 1863
• Newbern Weekly Progress (New Bern, N.C.) – 1858-1863
• The Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1836-1870
• Asheville Daily Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1885-1894
• The Times-News (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1933-1938
• The Laurinburg Post (Laurinburg, N.C.) – 1895
• The Progressive Farmer and the Cotton Plant (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1886-1905
• Daily Herald (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) – 1923-1948
• Tabor City Tribune (Tabor City, N.C.) – 1946-1963
• The Lincoln Times (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1935-1956
• The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1890-1905
• Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1940-1947

Over the next few weeks we will be uploading more newspapers from NDNP. 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.