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This week we have the final 35 newspaper titles for this project up on DigitalNC! Over the past 11 months we have uploaded over 2.4 million pages of North Carolina newspapers – bringing our total number of newspaper pages on DigitalNC to 4,175,076 and our total number of titles on DigitalNC to 1,161 – all freely available to anyone! In this closing batch we have our first paper from Bower, North Carolina (which you may know as Clemmons today) and an article in the Union Republican about Stokes County’s would be Wright brother: Jacob A. Hill.
Jacob Hill, Winston-Salem Journal, March 9, 1902
Before Orville and Wilbur’s iconic first flight in 1903, the race to create a manned flying machine was fiercely competitive. One of the contenders was a man from Vade Mecum Springs named Jacob Hill. Hill was born 1862 in Davie County and had been fascinated by the flight of birds ever since he was a child. In 1901 he decided to take that curiosity a little further and solve “the problem of aerial navigation” by building his own dirigible.
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Union Republican, March 14, 1901
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Danbury Reporter, December 5, 1923
Mr. Hill’s machine could have been the first piloted aircraft, but we’ll never know for sure if it could actually fly and be controlled. Momentum ran out when Hill couldn’t secure funding for his invention. According to Thomas Parramore’s First to Fly, witnesses claimed the craft could get off the ground, but couldn’t do much more than hover in place. Even though Hill’s airship became something of a local joke for a time, the legacy of his wild aspirations continues to live on in North Carolina history.
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Danbury Reporter, December 15, 1904
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Business Guide, February 16, 1906
Over the past year, we’ve added 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, we have made 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:
Belhaven
Bower
Charlotte
Greensboro
Kings Mountain
Kinston
Lenoir
Monroe
Mt. Airy
New Bern
- The Republic and Courier (New Bern, N.C.) – 1872-1874
- The True Republican, and Newbern Weekly Advertiser (New Bern, N.C.) – 1810-1811
- The Morning Herald (New Bern, N.C.) – 1807-1808
- Newbern Herald (New Bern, N.C.) – 1809-1810
- The North Carolina Circular, and Newbern Weekly Advertiser (New Bern, N.C.) – 1803-1805
- The Daily Herald (New Bern, N.C.) – 1868
- The Republican & Courier (New Bern, N.C.) – 1871
- Newbern Enquirer (New Bern, N.C.) – 1860
- The Daily Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1894
- New Berne Daily Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1894-1895
Salem
Salisbury
Shelby
Statesville
Swan Quarter
Taylorsville
Warrenton
Winston
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’ve added another 60 titles to DigitalNC. Included in this batch is the possible origin of a classic North Carolina ghost story!
The Maco Light story tells of a train conductor name Joe Baldwin who was decapitated in a tragic railway accident near the small community of Maco, North Carolina. Legend has it that the ghost of Mr. Baldwin could be seen walking the tracks at night, carrying a lantern and searching for his misplaced head, but once the railroad was removed in the 1970s he was never seen again.
The Southerner, January 12, 1856
As is the case with most folk tales, the story is passed down and embellished over the years and the origin becomes a little fuzzy. There is no record of a “Joe” Baldwin being involved in a wreck, but the January 12th, 1856 issue of The Southerner has an article detailing a train accident that took place just outside of Wilmington a week earlier. The deceased in this incident is Charles Baldwin, who suffered a fatal head injury during the crash. Given the similarities in these stories, it seems our ghost might have actually stayed in one piece.
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:
Elizabeth City
Greensboro
Hendersonville
Oxford
Rutherfordton
Salem
Salisbury
Southern Pines
Southport
Tarboro
Taylorsville
Warrenton
Washington
- The Republican (Washington, N.C.) – 1839
- Rough and Ready (Washington, N.C.) – 1848
- The Statesman, and Third Congressional District Advertiser (Washington, N.C.) – 1834-1835
- North Carolina Times (Washington, N.C.) – 1856-1860
- The Union Advance Picket (Washington, N.C.) – 1862
- The Eastern Intelligencer (Washington, N.C.) – 1869
- The Union (Washington, N.C.) – 1832
- What Next (Washington, N.C.) – 1876
- Washington Dispatch (Washington, N.C.) – 1857-1861
- Washington Herald (Washington, N.C.) – 1827
- Washington Index (Washington, N.C.) – 1867
- The Washington Gazette (Washington, N.C.) – 1884-1898
Williamston
Wilson
- The North Carolinian (Wilson, N.C.) – 1867-1868
- The Daily News (Wilson, N.C.) – 1900-1901
- The Wilson Ledger (Wilson, N.C.) – 1858-1861
- The Flag of the South (Wilson, N.C.) – 1861
- The Advertiser (Wilson, N.C.) – 1888
- The Advance (Wilson, N.C.) – 1874-1876
- The Wilson News (Wilson, N.C.) – 1899
- The Daily Topic (Wilson, N.C.) – 1873
- Southern Sentinel (Wilson, N.C.) – 1856
- The Little Jewel (Wilson, N.C.) – 1875
Winston
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 60 titles up on DigitalNC! While these papers cover all of North Carolina, almost one third are from Statesville alone!
In the October 3rd, 1902 issue of Elizabeth City’s Tar Heel, there is an interview with Reginald Aubrey Fessenden’s assistant, Professor Saint Marie. Fessenden was a pioneer in early radio, or “wireless telegraphy,” and was conducting experiments at Manteo on Roanoke Island. In the interview, Prof. Saint Marie seems somewhat pessimistic about the process and its possibilities, which might be due to Fessenden abruptly ending their contract with the Weather Bureau the previous month after conflict arose over ownership of the patent.
Tar Heel, October 3, 1902
However, less than two months later The News and Observer reported that Fessenden’s invention had greatly improved and could now send transmissions to Washington, D.C. On Christmas Eve, 1906, he conducted the first radio broadcast by reading a bible verse and then playing ‘O Holy Night’ on his violin for the ships off the coast of Massachusetts. By 1909, according the the Charlotte Evening Observer, he had perfected the process for which he laid the foundation on the Carolina coast.
News and Observer, November 23, 1902
Evening Chronicle, April 14, 1909
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:
Elizabeth City
Moravian Falls
North Wilkesboro
Oxford
Pittsboro
Rutherfordton
Salem
Salisbury
- The Evening World (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1895-1898
- Weekly World (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1895-1896
- Salisbury News (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1878
- The Salisbury Press (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1888
- The Tribune (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1872
- The Daily Gazette (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1865
- The Rowan Whig and Western Advocate (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1852-1855
- The Salisbury Herald (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1855-1857
- The Weekly Jubilee (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1852
- The Prohibitionist (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1881
- Salisbury Weekly Sun (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1897-1904
- Salisbury Globe (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1904-1905
- The Salisbury Daily Index (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1899-1900
- Salisbury Daily Truth-Index (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1900-1901
- Daily Herald (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1891-1896
- North Carolina Herald (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1885-1898
- The Industrial Record (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1899
Selma
Shelby
Siler City
Smithfield
Statesville
Stonewall
Tarboro
Taylorsville
Wadesboro
Warrenton
Washington
Wilson
Windsor
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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