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This week we have another 61 titles up on DigitalNC, including our first additions from Charleston, Culler, Red Springs, Rutherfordton, and Sanford! Included in this batch, on the front page of the February 28, 1872 issue of Raleigh’s Weekly Sentinel, is an article detailing the final heist of Robeson County folk hero Henry Berry Lowry.
Portrait thought to be of Henry Berry Lowry. Via the State Archives of North Carolina
Henry Berry Lowry, a Lumbee Native American, was the head of the mostly Native outlaw group known as the Lowry Gang. In addition to typical outlaw activities, the Lowry Gang also helped other Native Americans avoid Confederate work conscription and fought alongside Union soldiers who had escaped Confederate prison camps. While Lowry did often resort to murder to settle personal feuds, he was also considered a sort of Robeson “Robin Hood.” When they committed robberies, they would often share the spoils with the community and would return items such as horses as soon as they were no longer needed. They were known to be “respectful” robbers and would let you off the hook if you could show you didn’t have much.
The Weekly Sentinel, February 28, 1872
In 1869, governor William Holden put a $12,000 bounty on Lowry’s head, which resulted in bloody conflict over the next few years. After successfully evading capture, Lowry planned his final heist in February of 1872. The gang stole a safe from a local carriage manufacturer and were bold enough to take another from the sheriff’s office, walking away with $22,000 (about $520,000 today) and then he disappeared. The bounty was never collected and he was never heard from again. Some locals claim they saw him at a friend’s funeral years later, but we will likely never know what happened to Henry Berry Lowry.
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:
Asheboro
Charleston
Charlotte
Culler
Elizabeth City
Goldsboro
Greensboro
Halifax
Hertford
North Wilkesboro
Oxford
Plymouth
Raleigh
Red Springs
Reidsville
Rockingham
Rutherfordton
Salisbury
Sanford
Shelby
Tarboro
Taylorsville
Wadesboro
Warrenton
Washington
Winston-Salem
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 34 titles up on DigitalNC! While this batch focuses heavily on newspapers from Hendersonville, Goldsboro, and Greensboro, it also includes Fayetteville, Henderson, Albemarle, Clinton, Burlington, and our first addition from Bush Hill. Bush Hill (renamed Archdale in 1886) was home to the Annie Florence Petty, who was the first professionally educated and trained librarian in the state of North Carolina. Petty (born 1871) was a founding member of the North Carolina Library Association and, in keeping with her Quaker upbringing, she was also the first secretary of the North Carolina Friends Historical Society. After her prosperous, four-decade long career building the library at the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial School (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and other libraries across the state, she retired in 1933 and moved into the family home she shared with her equally successful, chemist sister, Mary Petty.
Mary (left) and Annie Petty in 1952. Image via uncghistory.blogspot.com
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 News Dispatch (Clinton, N.C.) – 1909-1917
- The North Carolina Prohibitionist (Bush Hill, N.C.) – 1886-1888
- The Observer and Gazette (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1885-1887
- The Stanly Enterprise (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1898-1902
- The Twice-A-Week Dispatch (Burlington, N.C.) – 1913
- Border Review (Henderson, N.C.) – 1879-1880
- The Tobacconist and Review (Henderson, N.C.) – 1881
- The Henderson County Advertiser (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1874
- The Henderson Times (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1864
- The Western Courier (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1878
- Independent Herald (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1881-1882
- The Hendersonville News (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1921-1922
- The Daily Rough Notes (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1861
- Goldsboro’ Daily Rough Notes (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1868
- Goldsboro’ Telegraph (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1850
- North Carolina Telegraph (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1850-1855
- Goldsboro’ Tribune (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1862
- Goldsboro’ Patriot (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1849
- The New Era (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1853-1855
- The Goldsboro Bulletin (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1883-1884
- The Daily News (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1865
- Goldsboro’ Daily News (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1866
- Goldsboro Mail (Goldsboro N.C.) – 1879
- Daily Morning Star (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1867
- The Republican (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1870
- Daily Southern Citizen (Greensboro, N.C.) -1864
- The Topic (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1869
- Greensboro Union Register (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1869
- The Daily Battle-Ground (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1881
- The Daily Bugle (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1882-1884
- The True American (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1855
- The Southern Democrat (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1890
- Republican Gazette (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1869
- The Labor News (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1908-1909
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.
Here are this week’s additions:
- The Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1868-1873
- The Cape-Fear Recorder (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1829-1832
- The Weekly Transcript and Messenger (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1874-1889
- The Carolina Federal Republican (New Bern, N.C.) – 1809-1818
- The Newbern Journal of Commerce (New Bern, N.C.) – 1866-1876
- New Bern Republican (New Bern, N.C.) – 1867-1868
- The Daily Nut Shell (New Bern, N.C.) – 1875-1883
- North Carolina Sentinel (New Bern, N.C.) – 1830-1833
- Newbern Spectator (New Bern, N.C.) – 1828-1842
- New Berne Times (New Bern, N.C.) – 1865-1873
- Weekly Commercial (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1848-1854
- The Weekly Intelligencer (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1859-1865
- The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1888-1908
- The Chronicle (New Bern, N.C.) – 1897
- New Bern Democrat (New Bern, N.C.) – 1879-1900
- The Courier (New Bern, N.C.) – 1894
- The Daily Liberal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1872
- The Republican (New Bern, N.C.) – 1847-1849
- The Weekly Union (New Bern, N.C.) – 1856-1859
- The Weekly News (New Bern, N.C.) – 1853
- Daily Commercial News (New Bern, N.C.) – 1881-1882
- The Newbernian (New Bern, N.C.) – 1874-1883
- The Cape Fear (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1876-1877
- The Carolina Farmer and Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1869-1870
- The Morning New Bernian (New Bern, N.C.) – 1917-1920
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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