This week we have another 38 newspaper titles up on DigitalNC! In this batch, we have issues spanning 33 years from Oxford, N.C. paper Oxford Public Ledger. In addition to being the county seat for Granville County, Oxford is also home to the first female parachutist and inventor of the ripcord: Georgia “Tiny” Broadwick.

Georgia was born April 8, 1893 and weighed only three pounds at birth, earning her the nickname “Tiny.” She was married at age 12, had a child at 13, and was widowed before she was 15. In 1907, her life changed forever when she saw The Broadwicks and their Famous French Aeronauts perform aerial stunts at the North Carolina State Fair. She left home, joined the Broadwicks travelling show, and was legally adopted by the show owner, Charles Broadwick, making her “Tiny” Broadwick.

Georgia ‘Tiny’ Broadwick, 1911. Via Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

In an exhibition in Chicago the week of September 16, 1912, Broadwick became the first woman to parachute from a plane. In 1914, jumped into Lake Michigan, making her the first woman to parachute into a body of water. Also in 1914, she debuted the ripcord in a parachuting demonstration for the U.S. Army, performing the first planned free-fall jump from an airplane. By the end of her career she is said to have performed over 1,100 jumps.

Wilmington Star, January 10, 1914

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:

• Toisnot Transcript (Toisnot, N.C.) – 1876
• Rocky Mount Progress (Rocky Mount, N.C.) – 1880
• The Warsaw Brief Mention (Warsaw, N.C.) – 1880
• The Albemarle Observer (Edenton, N.C.) – 1914-1915
• The Messenger (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1887-1888
• The Times-Herald (Littleton, N.C.) – 1906-1909
• The Maxton Union (Maxton, N.C.) – 1889-1891
• Waynesville Courier (Waynesville, N.C.) – 1888-1911
• The Waynesville News (Waynesville, N.C.) – 1888
• Siler City Leader (Siler City, N.C.) – 1892
• The Troy Times (Troy, N.C.) – 1888
• The Daily News (Waynesville, N.C.) – 1886
• The Farmer’s Friend (Morganton, N.C.) – 1898
• The Norlina Headlight (Norlina, N.C.) – 1914-1924
• The Public Ledger (Oxford, N.C.) – 1889-1901
• Oxford Public Ledger (Oxford, N.C.) – 1901-1911
• Public Ledger and Oxford Banner (Oxford, N.C.) – 1912-1913
• Public Ledger (Oxford, N.C.) – 1913-1919
• Oxford Public Ledger (Oxford, N.C.) – 1919-1922
• The Tri-Weekly Examiner (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1869-1872
• The Weekly Examiner (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1871-1872
• The Salisbury Examiner (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1881-1883
• The Great Sunny South (Snow Hill, N.C.) – 1898
• The Stovall Courier (Stovall, N.C.) – 1898
• The People’s Paper (Warren Plains, N.C.) – 1895-1896
• Washington Weekly Progress (Washington, N.C.) – 1887-1888
• Washington Progress (Washington, N.C.) – 1888-1891
• The Roxboro Herald (Roxboro, N.C.) – 1881
• The Person County News (Roxboro, N.C.) – 1882-1883
• Person County Courier (Roxboro, N.C.) – 1893-1896
• The Courier (Roxboro, N.C.) – 1896-1910
• The Roxboro Courier (Roxboro, N.C.) – 1911-1917
• The Argonaut (Rocky Mount, N.C.) – 1894
• The Selma News (Selma, N.C.) – 1887
• The Messenger (Siler City, N.C.) – 1898-1900
• The Woman’s Right (Wadesboro, N.C.) – 1874
• The Sunny Home (Toisnot, N.C.) – 1881-1883
• The People’s Press (Salem, N.C.) – 1851-1892

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 32 titles up on DigitalNC! Eleven of these papers are from Asheville, including a few with a focus on the organized labor movement.

When people think of North Carolina, unions aren’t typically the first thing that come to mind, which makes sense since the state has the second lowest union representation rate in the country at 2.6%, only beating South Carolina by about 1%. However, in the first half of the 20^th century, the labor movement was alive and well, that is until North Carolina officially became a Right-To-Work state in 1947, greatly limiting the power of unions in the state. In the 1950s, the unionization rate was 9% and it has been on the decline ever since.

The Workman, March 30, 1901

The Asheville Banner, July 30, 1931

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:

1. The Elkin Tribune (Elkin, N.C.) – 1914-1920
2. The Progress (Enfield, N.C.) – 1922-1924
3. The North Carolina Times (Louisburg, N.C.) – 1848
4. The Monroe Enquirer (Monroe, N.C.) – 1909-1942
5. The Morganton Herald (Morganton, N.C.) – 1889-1890
6. Rocky Mount Mail (Rocky Mount, N.C.) – 1873-1876
7. Person County Courier (Roxboro, N.C.) – 1887-1889
8. Johnston Courier (Smithfield, N.C.) – 1878
9. Madison County Record (Marshall, N.C.) – 1902-1910
10. The French Broad News (Marshall, N.C.) – 1907-1911
11. Law’s Lash (Moravian Falls, N.C.) – 1911-1914
12. The Lash (Moravian Falls, N.C.) – 1914-1930
13. The Murphy Advance (Murphy, N.C.) – 1889
14. Murphy Bulletin (Murphy, N.C.) – 1886-1888
15. Union and Scottish Chief (Maxton, N.C.) – 1892-1893
16. Scottish Chief (Maxton, N.C.) – 1893-1894
17. Maxton Scottish Chief (Maxton, N.C.) – 1894-1898
18. Southern Illustrated Age (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1875
19. North Carolina Christian Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1856-1861
20. The Eclectic (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1892
21. The Special Informer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1892
22. Anti-Saloon Advocate (Asheville, N.C.) – 1905
23. The Freeman (Asheville, N.C.) – 1933
24. Asheville Life (Asheville, N.C.) – 1930
25. Asheville Herald (Asheville, N.C.) – 1933
26. The Asheville Banner (Asheville, N.C.) – 1931
27. The Good Roads Bulletin (Asheville, N.C.) – 1900
28. The Workman (Asheville, N.C.) – 1901
29. Our Mountain Home (Asheville, N.C.) – 1906
30. The Church Advocate (Asheville, N.C.) – 1943
31. Mountain Home-Journal (Asheville, N.C.) – 1891
32. Western North Carolina Methodist (Asheville, N.C.) – 1891-1892

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 70 newspapers up on DigitalNC! These titles span 32 towns and almost as many counties! This batch also includes our first additions from the towns of Waco, Pores Knob, La Grange, Leaksville, Mount Olive, and Manson!

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:

• Morehead City Weekly News (Morehead City, N.C.) – 1892
• Pearson’s Papers (Boomer, N.C.) – 1923
• Mount Olive Advertiser (Mount Olive, N.C.) – 1898-1900
• The Fool=Killer (Pores Knob, N.C.) – 1925-1929
• The Newton Enterprise (Newton, N.C.) – 1879-1918
• The Old North State (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1866-1868
• The Hendersonville News (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1919
• The Littleton Courier (Littleton, N.C.) – 1892
• The Magnolia Advertiser (Magnolia, N.C.) – 1872
• The Morning News (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1887
• King’s Weekly (Greenville, N.C.) – 1901
• Farm and Fireside (High Point, N.C.) – 1872
• La Grange Vidette (La Grange, N.C.) – 1875
• The Davidson Record (Lexington, N.C.) – 1876
• The Home Companion (Manson, N.C.) – 1897
• The Morganton Star (Morganton, N.C.) – 1885-1889
• The Rural Chronicle (Waco, N.C.) – 1884
• Surry Weekly Visitor (Mount Airy, N.C.) – 1872-1880
• The Mount Airy News (Mount Airy, N.C.) – 1896-1914
• The Laurinburg Enterprise (Laurinburg, N.C.) – 1880
• Scotchman and Observer (Laurinburg, N.C.) – 1873
• The Madison Leader (Madison, N.C.) – 1888
• The Madison News (Madison, N.C.) – 1890
• The Mocksville Herald (Mocksville, N.C.) – 1912
• Mocksville Enterprise (Mocksville, N.C.) – 1917-1938
• The Lamp Post (Marion, N.C.) – 1881
• The Western Enterprise (Marion, N.C.) – 1862
• The Citizen (Murfreesboro, N.C.) – 1859-1860
• Albemarle Southron and Union Advocate (Murfreesboro, N.C.) – 1860
• The Trumpet (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1886-1888
• The Lincoln County News (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1919-1924
• The Weekly News (Louisburg, N.C.) – 1855
• American Eagle (Louisburg, N.C.) – 1857-1860
• Louisburg Union & North Carolina Miscellany (Louisburg, N.C.) – 1846-1847
• The Raleigh News (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1877-1878
• The Daily Call (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1889
• The Weekly Raleigh Register, and North Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1842
• The Argus (Lumberton, N.C.) – 1902-1903
• The Weekly Argus (Lumberton, N.C.) – 1903-1904
• The Lumberton Argus (Lumberton, N.C.) – 1904-1905
• The Asheville Register (Asheville, N.C.) – 1904-1905
• Asheville Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1900, 1926
• Asheville Gazette (Asheville, N.C.) – 1900
• The Milton Gazette (Milton, N.C.) – 1892-1893
• The Milton Herald (Milton, N.C.) – 1898-1900
• The Milton Advertiser (Milton, N.C.) – 1886-1891
• The Leaksville Reporter (Leaksville, N.C.) – 1888
• Leaksville Herald (Leaksville, N.C.) – 1860-1861
• Dan Valley Echo (Leaksville, N.C.) – 1885-1887
• The Leaksville Gazette (Leaksville, N.C.) – 1883
• Herald of the Times (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1835-1836
• The Elizabeth City News (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1891-1894
• The Albemarle Register (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1874-1875
• The Weekly Transcript (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1867
• North Carolina Native Sentinel (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1856
• The Falcon (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1881-1890
• The Daily Courier (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1860
• The Gleaner (Fayetteville, N.C.) -1883
• Wide Awake (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1876
• The Cape Fear Banner (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1880
• Campaign Herald (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1876
• Solid South (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1894
• The Journal (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1888
• The Statesman (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1873-1874
• Dollar Weekly (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1886
• The Fayetteville Index (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1909-1914
• The Fayetteville News (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1866-1868
• North Carolina Gazette (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1873-1880
• The North Carolina Gazette (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1892-1893
• Evening News (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1886-1887

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 15^th, 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 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.

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.

This week we are sharing the second installment of titles on DigitalNC that were brought to us by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) in a cooperative effort 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. You can currently search all of the NDNP issues on the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America website. Those same issues will be available on our newspaper database, allowing you to search that content alongside the other papers on DigitalNC.  The week’s titles are the following:

• Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.) – 1888-1934
• Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1931-1937
• The Tarborough Southerner (Tarboro, N.C.) – 1848-1876
• The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1853-1887
• Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1836-1858
• Marion Progress (Marion, N.C.) – 1930-1931
• The News and Views (Jacksonville, N.C.) – 1942-1952
• Fisherman & Farmer (Edenton, N.C.) – 1889-1901
• The Farmer and Mechanic (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1877-1915
• The Free Press (Southern Pines, N.C.) – 1898-1905
• The Commonwealth (Scotland Neck, N.C.) – 1888
• The Review (High Point, N.C.) – 1910-1921
• Rockingham Post-Dispatch (Rockingham, N.C.) – 1917-1922
• French Broad Hustler (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1905-1919
• The Durham Daily Globe (Durham, N.C.) – 1887-1894
• The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1897-1908
• Journal of Freedom (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1865
• The Sun (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1883-1885
• The North-Carolinian (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1842-1857
• Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1941-1946
• The Robesonian (Lumberton, N.C.) – 1872-1918
• Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.) – 1886
• The State Chronicle (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1883-1892
• The Daily Caucasian (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1895
• The Gold Leaf (Henderson, N.C.) – 1882-1911
• The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.) – 1884-1913
• The Durham Recorder (Durham, N.C.) – 1879-1911
• The Hillsborough Recorder (Hillsborough, N.C.) – 1836-1879
• Henderson Daily Dispatch (Henderson, N.C.) – 1932-1940
• Hillsboro Recorder (Hillsborough, N.C.) – 1887-1888
• The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1935-1939
• The Lincoln Times (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1935-1962
• The Southern News (Asheville, N.C.) – 1938-1962
• Charlotte Messenger (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1882-1889
• The Weekly Intelligencer (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1864-1865
• The Educator (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1874-1875
• The Chapel Hill Weekly (Chapel Hill, N.C.) – 1930-1934
• Wilmington Journal (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1844-1876
• Cherokee Scout (Murphy, N.C.) – 1890-1917
• The Daily Confederate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1864-1865
• The Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1891-1898
• Our Living and Our Dead (New Bern, N.C.) – 1873-1874
• North Carolina Republican (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1880
• Weekly Confederate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1864-1865
• The Monroe Journal (Monroe, N.C.) – 1903-1922
• The Journal of Industry (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1879-1880
• North Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1885
• The Skyland Post (West Jefferson, N.C.) – 1935-1947
• The Coastland Times (Manteo, N.C.) – 1951-1962
• The Burke County News (Morganton, N.C.) – 1899-1900
• The Fool-Killer (Boomer, N.C.) – 1910-1922
• Orange County Observer (Hillsborough, N.C.) – 1880-1916

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