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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 have another 70 titles up on DigitalNC including over 1,000 issues of The Robesonian, 1,000 issues of The Western Sentinel, 3,000 issues of The Reidsville Review, 4,000 issues of The News and Observer, and almost 4,000 issues of the Salisbury Evening Post!
In the March 8th, 1914 issue of The News and Observers we have an article detailing a practice game played by the Baltimore Orioles while in Fayetteville. This happens to be the game where a 19 year old George Herman “Babe” Ruth hit his first home run as a professional baseball player. Ruth was also given his iconic nickname “Babe” while in Fayetteville on this trip.
The News and Observer, March 8th, 1914
Image via The Fayetteville Observer
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
Asheville
Belhaven
Brevard
Charlotte
Cherryville
Clayton
Concord
Cooleemee
Creedmoor
Durham
East Bend
Elizabeth City
Forest City
Gastonia
Goldsboro
Greenville
Kenly
Leaksville
Lenoir
Lincolnton
Lumberton
Mocksville
Mooresville
Moravian Falls
New Bern
Raleigh
Red Springs
Reidsville
Rocky Mount
Rutherfordton
Salisbury
Selma
Shelby
Smithfield
Spruce Pines & Burnsville
Statesville
Taylorsville
Washington
Waynesville
Wilmington
Windsor
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 45 newspapers added to DigitalNC including our first titles from Ridgeway, North Carolina!
In the June 15th, 1920 issue of the Asheville Citizen we have an article celebrating UNC’s class of 1920 where recent graduate, and Asheville native, Thomas Wolfe reads the class poem and presents the class gift at an alumni event. It would be almost a decade until his iconic debut novel, Look Homeward, Angel, is published.
Asheville Citizen, June 15, 1920
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:
Asheville
Concord
Durham
Fayetteville
Greensboro
Highlands
Kinston
Laurinburg
Lenoir
Louisburg
Mocksville
Nashville
New Bern
- The North Carolina Circular, and Newbern Weekly Advertiser (New Bern, N.C.) – 1803-1805
- The Morning Herald (New Bern, N.C.) – 1807-1808
- Newbern Herald (New Bern, N.C.) – 1809-1810
- The True Republican, and Newbern Weekly Advertiser (New Bern, N.C.) – 1810-1811
- The Carolinian (New Bern, N.C.) – 1815
- The Hornet’s Nest (New Bern, N.C.) – 1847
- Newbern Enquirer (New Bern, N.C.) – 1860
- The Daily Herald (New Bern, N.C.) – 1868
- The Campaign Anti-Radical (New Bern, N.C.) – 1870
- The Daily Liberal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1872
Pittsboro
Polkton
Raleigh
Randleman
Reidsville
Ridgeway
Rockingham
Wadesboro
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 tens of thousands of issues up on DigitalNC! In this batch we have over 1,000 issues of The High Point Enterprise and Lenoir News-Topic, more than 4,000 issues of The Charlotte Observer and The News & Observer, 5,000 issues of the Goldsboro Daily Argus, over 5,500 issues of The Kinston Free Press, 7,000 issues of the Asheville Citizen, and more!
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:
Asheville
Charlotte
Concord
Davidson
Durham
Edenton
Elizabeth City
Elkin
Fayetteville
Gastonia
Goldsboro
Graham
Greensboro
Halifax
Hickory
High Point
Kinston
Lenoir
Raleigh
Shelby
Wilmington
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 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 an astounding 80 titles up on DigitalNC! These papers span all across the state, covering 22 of North Carolina’s 100 counties! We have papers from smaller communities, like The Free Press from the town of Forest City (Fun fact: Forest City was originally named “Burnt Chimney” after a house that burned own in the area, leaving only a charred chimney behind). We also have well-established papers from Raleigh, such as The Raleigh Times and Evening Visitor, giving us a cross section of the entire state.
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:
- Raleigh Christian Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1918-1919
- The Davidson Dispatch (Lexington, N.C.) – 1886-1902
- The Dispatch (Lexington, N.C.) – 1902-1922
- Carolina Messenger (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1869-1877
- Goldsboro Messenger (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1878-1883
- The Daily Capital (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1891
- The Daily Call (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1889-1896
- The Hayseeder (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1896-1898
- The Daily Dispatch (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1880
- Daily Morning Record (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1881
- Greensboro Evening Telegram (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1897-1900
- Greensboro Telegram (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1900-1910
- Greenville Daily News (Greenville, N.C.) – 1917-1920
- Greenville News (Greenville, N.C.) – 1920-1921
- North Carolina Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1888
- The Live Giraffe (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1852-1859
- The Democratic Press (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1859-1860
- The Daily Democratic Press (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1860
- Hale’s Weekly (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1879-1880
- The Golden Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1891
- State Prohibition Organ (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1881
- The Advertiser (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1893
- Beans (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1887
- Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1897-1900
- The Daily Press (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1894-1895
- The Press-Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1896
- The Times-Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1900
- The Raleigh Times and Evening Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1900
- Daily Industrial News (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1905-1909
- Carolina Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1816-1830
- The Franklin Times (Louisburg, N.C.) – 1879-1909
- The Topic (Lenoir, N.C.) – 1882
- The Lenoir Topic (Lenoir, N.C.) – 1882-1898
- The Western North Carolina Times (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1901-1923
- The Free Press (and Forest City Herald) (Forest City, N.C.) – 1915
- The Free Press (Forest City, N.C.) – 1916
- Forest City Courier (Forest City, N.C.) – 1924
- Everything (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1913-1918
- Davidson County News (Lexington, N.C.) – 1897-1898
- The Press and Carolinian (Hickory, N.C.) – 1893-1896
- The Lincoln County News (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1907-1918
- The Catawba County News (Newton, N.C.) – 1911
- The Franklin Press (Franklin, N.C.) – 1903-1906
- The Daily Workman (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1889-1891
- Greensboro Daily Workman (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1891-1892
- Goldsboro Weekly Argus (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1903-1905
- Asheville Daily Gazette (Asheville, N.C.) – 1897-1898
- Asheville Gazette-News (Asheville, N.C.) – 1910-1914
- The Asheville Times (Asheville, N.C.) – 1917
- The Old North State (Beaufort, N.C.) – 1865
- The Sampson Democrat (Clinton, N.C.) – 1892-1901
- The Concord Register (Concord, N.C.) – 1875-1885
- The Democratic Pioneer (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1850-1859
- The Patriot, and Greensborough Palladium (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1827-1829
- Greensborough Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1829-1836
- The Greensborough Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1839-1850
- The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1918-1922
- The Eagle (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1868-1875
- The Concord Sun (Concord, N.C.) – 1876-1877
- The American (Statesville, N.C.) – 1865-1869
- The Statesville American (Statesville, N.C.) – 1870-1886
- The Statesville American and Tobacco Journal (Statesville, N.C.) – 1881
- The Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1872-1890
- Economist and Falcon (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1894-1895
- Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1895-1897
- Asheville News (Asheville, N.C.) – 1851-1865
- The Asheville News and Western Farmer (Asheville, N.C.) – 1868
- The Asheville News and Mountain Farmer (Asheville, N.C.) – 1869
- The Randolph Bulletin (Asheboro, N.C.) – 1905-1915
- The Weekly Register (Asheville, N.C.) – 1884-1894
- The State Register (Asheville, N.C.) – 1895-1896
- The Asheville Register (Asheville, N.C.) – 1899-1900
- The Daily Sun (Asheville, N.C.) – 1888
- The Carthage Blade (Carthage, N.C.) – 1896-1907
- The Dunn Signboard (Dunn, N.C.) – 1887-1888
- The Harnett Courier (Dunn, N.C.) – 1888-1889
- Asheville Weekly Citizen (Asheville, N.C) – 1893-1894
- Asheville Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1894
- The Semi-Weekly Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1901
- The Clinton Reporter (Clinton, N.C.) – 1873-1874
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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