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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 44 newspaper titles up on DigitalNC ranging from 1799 t0 1919! The vast majority of these are Raleigh papers, but we also have some from Charlotte, Asheville, New Bern, Winston-Salem, and Chapel Hill.
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 Semi-Weekly Sentinel (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1866-1875
- Daily Sentinel (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1865-1876
- The Southern Field and Fireside (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1864-1865
- Raleigh Register and North-Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1826-1845
- Weekly North Carolina Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1853
- State Agriculture Journal (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1873-1875
- The Raleigh Sentinel (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1876-1877
- Southern Weekly Post (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1852-1955
- The Daily North-Carolina Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1866
- North Carolina Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1868-1869
- The Daily Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1869-1870
- The North-Carolina Star (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1850-1856
- Raleigh Star and North Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1839-1849
- Weekly State Journal (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1860-1884
- The State Journal (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1862-1863
- Weekly Post (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1851-1852
- The Star and North Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1833-1839
- The North Carolina Intelligencer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1890-1891
- The Home Rule (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1898
- The Rasp. (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1841-1842
- The Signal (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1879-1880
- The State Journal (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1913-1919
- The Field and Fireside (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1865-1867
- The Sentinel (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1866
- The Raleigh Star (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1850
- The Life Boat (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1865
- North Carolina Christian Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1904
- The Raleigh Minerva (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1809
- Raleigh Register and North-Carolina Weekly Advertiser (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1799-1800
- Daily Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1883
- Asheville Daily Gazette (Asheville, N.C.) – 1898-1900
- Asheville Gazette-News (Asheville, N.C.) – 1910-1915
- The Weekly Ledger (Chapel Hill, N.C.) – 1878-1879
- The Chapel Hill Ledger (Chapel Hill, N.C.) – 1879-1880
- The Weekly Catawba Journal (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1860-1865
- The Western Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1869-1870
- Hornets’ Nest and True Southron. (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1850-1851
- The Weekly Courier (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1873-1881
- Our Weekly (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1872-1873
- The New Bern Weekly Times (New Bern, N.C.) – 1873
- The People’s Press (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1833
- The Weekly News (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1872-1876
- The Daily News (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1876
- Spirit of the Age (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1874-1876
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.
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
This concludes the list of newspapers that we are sharing from the 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.
From the Western Democrat, 1854.
The Western Democrat, a Charlotte newspaper, is now online with issues dating from 1853 through 1868. A weekly paper, it is interesting in that it does not contain much local news or even information which would be recognized as news by modern readers. The front page includes such stories as “A Clever Anecdote–The Emperor and His Daughter” which is indeed a story as well as reprints from other newspapers. Generally four pages in length, the last two contain the most local content which is in the form of advertisements. Ads for “negroes wanted,” “negroes to hire,” and “negroes for sale” are common, such as in the the December 6, 1859 issue. Also frequent are advertisements offering rewards for runaway enslaved people. On the same page of the March 31, 1854 issue, a $50 reward is offered for the apprehension of a 26-year-old man while a separate ad offers the same amount for the apprehension of a thief who stole fifteen turkeys.
With the start of the Civil War in 1861, the newspaper shifts focus and prints stories almost exclusively related to the war effort. Lists of North Carolina killed and wounded are included as are descriptions of battles, discussions of the state’s defenses, and reprints of speeches and general orders.
Though lacking in local content, the Western Democrat provides insight into the important news during the 1850s and 1860s and gives the perspective of a Southern town on the Civil War.
The following newspapers were digitized from microfilm in 2011 and 2012.
Title |
Years |
Nominating Institution |
The Mebane Leader |
1911-1915 |
Alamance County Public Library |
Highland Messenger (Asheville) |
1840-1851 |
Buncombe County Public Library |
The Standard (Concord) |
1888-1898 |
Cabarrus County Public Library |
Daily Concord Standard |
1895-1899 |
Cabarrus County Public Library |
Mecklenburg Jeffersonian (Charlotte) |
1841-1849 |
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library |
Miners’ and Farmers’ Journal (Charlotte) |
1830-1834 |
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library |
Catawba Journal (Charlotte) |
1824-1828 |
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library |
Western Democrat (Charlotte) |
1856-1868 |
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library |
North Carolina Whig (Charlotte) |
1852-1863 |
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library |
Fayetteville Observer |
1851-1865 |
Cumberland County Public Library |
The Carolina Times (Durham) |
1951-1964 |
Durham County Library |
The Lincoln Republican (Lincolnton) |
1840-1842 |
Gaston County Public Library |
The Lincoln Courier (Lincolnton) |
1845-1895 |
Gaston County Public Library |
The Roanoke News (Weldon) |
1878-1922 |
Halifax County Public Library |
The Marion Progress |
1916, 1929, 1940 |
McDowell County Public Library |
Marion Record |
1894-1895 |
McDowell County Public Library |
Marion Messenger |
1896-1898 |
McDowell County Public Library |
The Pilot (Southern Pines) |
1920-1945 |
Southern Pines Public Library |
Sylvan Valley News |
1900-1911 |
Transylvania County Library |
The Pinehurst Outlook |
1897-1923 |
The Tufts Archives |
The Goldsboro Headlight |
1887-1903 |
Wayne County Public Library |
The Elm City Elevator |
1902 |
Wilson County Public Library |
The Wilson Advance |
1874-1899 |
Wilson County Public Library |