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This week we have another 61 titles up on DigitalNC, including our first additions from Charleston, Culler, Red Springs, Rutherfordton, and Sanford! Included in this batch, on the front page of the February 28, 1872 issue of Raleigh’s Weekly Sentinel, is an article detailing the final heist of Robeson County folk hero Henry Berry Lowry.
Portrait thought to be of Henry Berry Lowry. Via the State Archives of North Carolina
Henry Berry Lowry, a Lumbee Native American, was the head of the mostly Native outlaw group known as the Lowry Gang. In addition to typical outlaw activities, the Lowry Gang also helped other Native Americans avoid Confederate work conscription and fought alongside Union soldiers who had escaped Confederate prison camps. While Lowry did often resort to murder to settle personal feuds, he was also considered a sort of Robeson “Robin Hood.” When they committed robberies, they would often share the spoils with the community and would return items such as horses as soon as they were no longer needed. They were known to be “respectful” robbers and would let you off the hook if you could show you didn’t have much.
The Weekly Sentinel, February 28, 1872
In 1869, governor William Holden put a $12,000 bounty on Lowry’s head, which resulted in bloody conflict over the next few years. After successfully evading capture, Lowry planned his final heist in February of 1872. The gang stole a safe from a local carriage manufacturer and were bold enough to take another from the sheriff’s office, walking away with $22,000 (about $520,000 today) and then he disappeared. The bounty was never collected and he was never heard from again. Some locals claim they saw him at a friend’s funeral years later, but we will likely never know what happened to Henry Berry Lowry.
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
Charleston
Charlotte
Culler
Elizabeth City
Goldsboro
Greensboro
Halifax
Hertford
North Wilkesboro
Oxford
Plymouth
Raleigh
Red Springs
Reidsville
Rockingham
Rutherfordton
Salisbury
Sanford
Shelby
Tarboro
Taylorsville
Wadesboro
Warrenton
Washington
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 40 more titles on DigitalNC from all across North Carolina! Most of these papers are from Raleigh (such as the long-running Raleigh Evening Times and the Methodist Episcopal paper Raleigh Christian Advocate) as well as many papers from smaller communities. We have Rich Square’s Roanoke-Chowan Times, The Warrenton Gazette from Warrenton, The Roanoke News from Weldon, and Richmond County’s Rockingham Rocket. Whether it’s marriage announcements, classifieds for lost pets, or local elections where the winner barely reaches 100 votes, these newspapers give a glimpse into what small town life in North Carolina was like over a hundred years ago.
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 Southern Home (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1870-1881
- The Tarborough Southerner (Tarboro, N.C.) – 1877-1910
- Warrenton Gazette (Warrenton, N.C.) – 1872-1897
- The Record (Warrenton, N.C.) – 1892-1912
- Roanoke-Chowan Times (Rich Square, N.C.) – 1907-1926
- The Daily Tobacco Plant (Durham, N.C.) – 1888
- The Tobacco Plant (Durham, N.C.) – 1889
- The Times-Mercury (Hickory, N.C.) – 1899-1912
- Rockingham Post-Dispatch (Rockingham, N.C.) – 1923-1924
- Rockingham Rocket (Rockingham, N.C.) – 1888-1890
- Salisbury Daily Sun (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1897-1904
- Salisbury Evening Sun (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1904-1905
- The Salisbury Truth (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1900
- The Salisbury Semi-Weekly Truth-Index (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1900-1903
- Salisbury Daily Truth-Index (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1900
- The Statesville Sentinel (Statesville, N.C.) – 1909-1922
- The Roanoke News (Weldon, N.C.) – 1878-1922
- The Carolina Era (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1871-1872
- Tri-Weekly Constitution (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1876
- The Weekly Constitution (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1876
- Daily Constitution (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1875-1876
- North-Carolina Constitutionalist and Peoples’ Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1832-1833
- The Weekly North Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1868
- The North Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1868
- The Raleigh News (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1876-1877
- The Raleigh Weekly News (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1878-1880
- Blasting-Powder for Democrats and Conservatives (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1872
- Southern Illustrated Age (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1875
- The Episcopal Methodist (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1867-1868
- Raleigh Episcopal Methodist (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1869-1870
- Raleigh Christian Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1894-1899
- Daily Examiner (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1874
- The Raleigh Evening Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1890
- The Daily Evening Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1890-1894
- The Raleigh Evening Times (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1905-1906
- The Raleigh Daily Times (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1912
- The Raleigh Daily Tribune (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1897
- The Sentinel (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1866-1867
- The Union Herald (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1919-1922
- Raleigh Weekly Telegram (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1871
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.
We love hearing about ways that materials digitized through the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center have impacted research and recreation. We thought since they have done such a great job highlighting us, it’d only be fair to turn around and highlight a few we’ve found recently.
From the front page of the October 9, 1969 issue of the Warren Record
Today we’re focusing on a website that is on a very relevant topic to North Carolinians this time of year – the weather, and specifically, tornadoes. It’s called Tornado Talk and according to the site itself, “Tornado Talk aims to be your #1 source for tornado history. Join us on this on-going project to compile a user friendly and interactive database with tornado summaries, personal accounts, and video productions of major tornado events.” It is an incredibly in depth website and includes a calendar with tornado dates and each tornado that is focused on includes information about it’s path and links to primary sources about the destruction. DigitalNC was featured in a recent post about a tornado that hit Vaughan, NC near Lake Gaston on October 2, 1969 and a paper we digitized, the Warren Record, featured articles about the destruction that followed in the tornado’s path. To read more about the tornado and see the pages from the paper featured, check out Tornado Talk’s post here:
Vaughan-Lake Gaston, NC F2 Tornado – October 2, 1969
If you have a particular project or know of one that has utilized materials from DigitalNC, we’d love to hear about it! Contact us via email or in the comments below and we’ll check out.
A 1986 article about a rise in black bear sightings in Warren County
Nearly twenty years and over 600 issues of the Warren Record have been newly digitized on DigitalNC. While our collection previously only included issues from the years 1929-1938 and from 1959-1970, this new addition includes over a dozen years stretching from 1970 to 1989, which helps our collection become that much closer to being complete. Published since 1896, the Warren Record is a weekly newspaper that serves the readers in Warrenton and Warren County, NC. Many of the articles include local news concerning citizens or Warren County. For example, the 1986 article above was about the alarming increase in black bear sightings in Warren County and advice for readers about what to do in case they see one.
A 1970 article about the changing census in Warrenton from 1960 to 1970.
Many articles written in this time period were about other municipal issues, like elections, political developments, and census data. In the August 1970 article on the left, the Record announced that Warrenton’s population had dropped 7%, from 1124 residents in 1960 to 1046 ten years later. Warren County’s population also heavily dropped that decade, with its 22% drop being the largest on a percentage basis of any county in the state.
A 1989 article about the advent of cable television coming to Warrenton and Norlina.
Other articles were simply about local developments that could interest residents of Warren County. In the May 1989 article on the right, the Record announced that Warrenton and Norlina would be receiving cable television within the next year. People living in nearby Henderson already had cable, and the same company would be rolling out 12 channels to customers at a cost of $8 per month, with an extra dollar for every additional television.
To browse through other materials from the Warren County Memorial Library, visit their partner page or visit their website here.
The Warren Record, January 04, 1929, page 5
The Warren Record, April 05, 1929, page 7
The Warren Record, April 12, 1929, page 7
DigitalNC is excited to welcome our new partner, the Warren County Memorial Library, located in Warrenton, NC!
As their first contribution to DigitalNC, we are happy to publish several decades of The Warren Record newspaper. The issues date from 1929-1938 and from 1959-1970 are available for research and exploration.
The Warren Record was a weekly community newspaper that offered stories from both local and national headlines. During the earlier decades, it also included a page that was dedicated to the interests of women. The paper often reprinted popular fashion articles and images that were fresh from the New York runways. Like the images presented above, they present a unique look into the styles that women were exposed to during the early twentieth century, even in rural areas of North Carolina.
Browse all the issues of the Warren Record that are available on DigitalNC here. To learn more about this new partner, the Warren County Memorial Library, please visit their contributor page or their website.
The following microfilmed newspapers have been selected for digitization in 2015. Almost 90 reels were chosen from over 600 nominated reels, according to our Criteria for Selecting Newspapers to Digitize from Microfilm.
Title |
Years |
Nominating Institution |
The Brunswick Beacon (Shallotte, N.C.) |
1985-1992 |
Rourk Branch Library |
Jackson County Journal (Sylva, N.C.) |
1921-1943 |
Jackson County Public Library |
The Journal-Patriot (North Wilkesboro, N.C.) |
1933-1947 |
Wilkes County Public Library |
The Kings Mountain Herald (Kings Mountain, N.C.) |
1937-1954 |
Mauney Memorial Library |
Polk County News (Tryon, N.C.) |
1923-1926 |
Polk County Public Library |
The Sylva Herald and Ruralite (Sylva, N.C.) |
1943-1950 |
Jackson County Public Library |
Trench and Camp (Charlotte, N.C.) |
1917-1918 |
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Library |
The Warren Record (Warrenton, N.C.) |
1929-1970 |
Warren County Memorial Library |
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.) |
1923-1950 |
Watauga County Public Library |
Winston-Salem Chronicle (Winston-Salem, N.C.) |
1974-1996 |
Forsyth County Public Library |