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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 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.