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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.
Another 32 newspaper titles are up on DigitalNC this week! Three of these titles are from North Carolina towns that either changed their names or just don’t exist anymore.
First, we have the North Carolina National from Company Shops, North Carolina. Company Shops was a community formed around the railroad car construction and maintenance industry in Alamance County, between Graham and Gibsonville. Due to growing anti-railroad sentiments, the community of Company Shops decided to appoint a committee to change the name of the town in 1887. This committee decided on the name ‘Burlington.’
Next up is Our Home from Beaver Dam, North Carolina. It’s hard to determine exactly where Beaver Dam would have been, but knowing that the paper is from Union County, it seems possible that it was located near Beaverdam Creek, just south of Wingate and Marshville, North Carolina.
Lastly, we have The Hokeville Express from what was once known as Hokeville, or ‘Lincoln Factory,’ North Carolina. It seems likely that the community was named after the affluent Hoke family of Lincolnton. Col. John Hoke was one of the owners of the profitable Lincoln Cotton Mills. Col. Hoke died in 1845 and passed ownership on to his son, also named John Hoke. The factory burned down in 1862, and the following year the Confederate Army began constructing a laboratory on the site to manufacture medicines, such as ether, chloroform, and opiates. Since then the community has gone by the name ‘Laboratory.’
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 Daily Standard (Concord, N.C.) – 1893-1895
- Daily Concord Standard (Concord, N.C.) – 1895-1902
- Southern Voice (Bethel, N.C.) – 1890
- Berea Gazette (Berea, N.C.) – 1877-1878
- North Carolina National (Company Shops, N.C.) – 1882
- The Alliance Weekly (Hillsborough, N.C.) – 1896
- Hillsborough Plaindealer (Hillsborough, N.C.) – 1861
- North Carolina Democrat (Hillsborough, N.C.) – 1849-1850
- The Naked Truth (High Point, N.C.) – 1896
- Farm and Fireside (High Point, N.C.) – 1883
- High Point Reporter (High Point, N.C.) – 1860
- Our Home (Beaver Dam, N.C.) – 1893
- The Progressive Reformer (Kings Mountain, N.C.) – 1896
- The Ashe Reporter (Jefferson, N.C.) – 1892
- The Southern Home (Kernersville, N.C.) – 1887
- The Hokeville Express (Hokeville, N.C.) – 1855
- Gazette (Kinston, N.C.) – 1873
- The Mountaineer (Morganton, N.C.) – 1883
- The Carolina Mountaineer (Morganton, N.C.) – 1883-1884
- The Anglo-Saxon (Rockingham, N.C.) – 1902-1908
- The Ansonian (Polkton, N.C.) – 1874-1876
- Jonesville Enterprise (Jonesville, N.C.) – 1858
- The Rubicon (Yanceyville, N.C.) – 1840
- The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.) – 1910-1918
- The Burlington News (Burlington, N.C.) – 1900
- New Berne Weekly Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1908-1910
- The Anson Times (Wadesboro, N.C.) – 1881-1886
- The Moore County News (Carthage, N.C.) – 1920-1922
- The Canton Enterprise (Canton, N.C.) – 1920-1942
- The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.) – 1904-1922
- The Times (Concord, N.C.) – 1885-1894
- The Concord Times (Concord, N.C.) – 1894-1922
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 added issues from 35 different newspaper titles! One of the titles we have is a paper from the now non-existent town of Buffalo Springs, North Carolina. According to this News & Record article, the Harnett County town ceased to exist when the turpentine industry in the area died out. But the intriguing thing about these papers isn’t the ghost of this town, it’s the man who wrote them: John McLean Harrington. Professor and author Michael Ray Smith penned this fascinating paper about Harrington and his newspapers, in which he writes: “Shortly before the Civil War, the son of an affluent Southern family began a journalism career unlike any in his community, his state, or even the nation and produced 305 handwritten newspapers, perhaps the greatest single output of handwritten newspapers by any American journalist.” Harrington had a subscription list of roughly 100 people and would painstakingly copy each individual paper by hand, even though printing presses were widely available at the time. In 1858, when Harrington was writing issues of The Nation, he was only 19 years old. The young man’s ambitions didn’t stop with just being a journalist. He also apparently worked as a bookkeeper, surveyor, educator, sheriff, and postmaster in Harnett County. While his accomplishments were quite impressive, he was also a man of contradiction. Smith writes this of the rural Renaissance man: “He talked of a partner but never revealed the colleague’s identity—if he indeed had one. He discussed the evil of drinking but died an alcoholic. He served as a member of the Confederate militia only to swear an oath that he would always remain a loyal Unionist. Perhaps Harrington tended to do or say whatever was expedient or expected at the time. Maybe he was himself just conflicted in numerous ways.”
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 Tri-Weekly Bulletin (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1865-1881
- Asheville Pioneer (Asheville, N.C.) – 1867-1869
- Weekly Pioneer (Asheville, N.C.) – 1870-1874
- The Carolina Eagle (Hickory, N.C.) – 1871-1872
- Mountain Messenger (Jefferson, N.C.) – 1873
- Battleboro Advance (Rocky Mount, N.C.) – 1871-1873
- The Weekly Ansonian (Polkton, N.C.) – 1876-1877
- The Southern Mail (Hillsborough, N.C.) – 1880
- The Carolina Republican (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1848-1853
- Yadkin & Catawba Journal (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1828-1833
- The Journal (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1833-1834
- The Hornet (Bixby, N.C.) – 1908
- The Courier (Asheboro, N.C.) – 1922-1924
- The Asheville Democrat (Asheville, N.C.) – 1889-1891
- Monthly Gleaner (Asheville, N.C.) – 1894-1895
- Fuller’s Gleaner (Asheville, N.C.) – 1895-1896
- The Dispatch (Bessemer City, N.C.) – 1912
- The Carthage Blade (Carthage, N.C.) – 1887-1895
- The Central Times (Dunn, N.C.) – 1895
- County Union (Dunn, N.C.) – 1895-1899
- The Transylvania Hustler (Brevard, N.C.) – 1893
- The Brevard Hustler (Brevard, N.C.) – 1896
- The Western Carolina Democrat (Bakersville, N.C.) – 1888
- Roan Mountain Republican (Bakersville, N.C.) – 1876-1879
- The Nation (Buffalo Springs, N.C.) – 1858
- Cape Fear News (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1915-1917
- Central Argus (Hamlet, N.C.) – 1880
- The Stanly Enterprise (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1903-1907
- The Albemarle Enterprise (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1912-1916
- The Stanly News-Herald (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1920-1922
- The Beaufort News (Beaufort, N.C.) – 1920-1922
- The State Dispatch (Burlington, N.C.) – 1908-1909
- Daily Carolina Times (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1864-1869
- The Standard (Concord, N.C.) – 1900-1902
- The Battleboro Progress (Battleboro, N.C.) – 1880
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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