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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.
This week we have 48 titles up on DigitalNC! One of the newspapers added this week is The Holden Record. The short-lived Raleigh publication, solely dedicated to discrediting gubernatorial candidate W.W. Holden, was created by abolitionist and Raleigh Register co-publisher H.H. Helper. Holden went on to be elected governor, even though the paper painted him as a violent man and blamed him for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Holden took an anti-Klan stance and this tension led to the Kirk-Holden War. He served until 1871, was impeached, and charged on eight counts for alleged crimes committed during this time. While the impeachment was politically motivated due to his suppression of the Klan, he is still the only North Carolina governor to have been impeached.
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:
- North Carolina Times (New Bern, N.C.) – 1864-1865
- The Weekly Sentinel (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1867-1871
- The North Carolina Minerva and Fayetteville Advertiser (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1796-1799
- The North-Carolina Minerva and Raleigh Advertiser (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1799-1800
- The North-Carolina Minerva (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1800-1803
- Minerva; or Anti-Jacobin (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1803-1804
- The Minerva (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1804-1809
- Raleigh Register and North Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1823-1848
- The Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1848-1868
- The Weekly Republican (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1867
- The Holden Record (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1868
- North-Carolina Constitutionalist and States Rights’ Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1831
- The Era (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1874-1876
- The Carolina Era (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1872
- Tri-Weekly Era (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1872
- The Weekly Era (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1872-1874
- The Farmer and Mechanic (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1901-1908
- The Raleigh News (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1876
- The Raleigh Times (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1912
- The Weekly Raleigh Register and North Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1841-1852
- The Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1852-1868
- The Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1868-1886
- The Semi-Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1852-1863
- Raleigh Register and North-Carolina State Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1823-1825
- The Daily North-Carolina Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1865
- The People’s Press and Wilmington Advertiser (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1833-1834
- Raleigh Times (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1848-1852
- Raleigh Republican (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1867-1874
- We Know (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1872
- Daily Advertiser (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1868
- The Semi-Weekly Record (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1865
- The Daily Record (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1865
- City and State (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1878
- The National (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1878
- The Evening Crescent (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1874
- Daily Evening Crescent (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1874
- The Whig Clarion (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1843-1844
- The Weekly News (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1869-1870
- The Hornets’ Nest (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1849-1850
- The Southern Mechanic (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1876
- The Ballot (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1886
- Purefoy’s Express (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1877
- The Journal-Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1883
- The Daily Carolina Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1869
- The Daily Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1869
- Christian Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1863-1870
- Newbern Weekly Times (New Bern, N.C.) – 1866
- North Carolina Guardian (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1867
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.