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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 32 titles up on DigitalNC! Eleven of these papers are from Asheville, including a few with a focus on the organized labor movement.
When people think of North Carolina, unions aren’t typically the first thing that come to mind, which makes sense since the state has the second lowest union representation rate in the country at 2.6%, only beating South Carolina by about 1%. However, in the first half of the 20th century, the labor movement was alive and well, that is until North Carolina officially became a Right-To-Work state in 1947, greatly limiting the power of unions in the state. In the 1950s, the unionization rate was 9% and it has been on the decline ever since.
The Workman, March 30, 1901
The Asheville Banner, July 30, 1931
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 Elkin Tribune (Elkin, N.C.) – 1914-1920
- The Progress (Enfield, N.C.) – 1922-1924
- The North Carolina Times (Louisburg, N.C.) – 1848
- The Monroe Enquirer (Monroe, N.C.) – 1909-1942
- The Morganton Herald (Morganton, N.C.) – 1889-1890
- Rocky Mount Mail (Rocky Mount, N.C.) – 1873-1876
- Person County Courier (Roxboro, N.C.) – 1887-1889
- Johnston Courier (Smithfield, N.C.) – 1878
- Madison County Record (Marshall, N.C.) – 1902-1910
- The French Broad News (Marshall, N.C.) – 1907-1911
- Law’s Lash (Moravian Falls, N.C.) – 1911-1914
- The Lash (Moravian Falls, N.C.) – 1914-1930
- The Murphy Advance (Murphy, N.C.) – 1889
- Murphy Bulletin (Murphy, N.C.) – 1886-1888
- Union and Scottish Chief (Maxton, N.C.) – 1892-1893
- Scottish Chief (Maxton, N.C.) – 1893-1894
- Maxton Scottish Chief (Maxton, N.C.) – 1894-1898
- Southern Illustrated Age (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1875
- North Carolina Christian Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1856-1861
- The Eclectic (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1892
- The Special Informer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1892
- Anti-Saloon Advocate (Asheville, N.C.) – 1905
- The Freeman (Asheville, N.C.) – 1933
- Asheville Life (Asheville, N.C.) – 1930
- Asheville Herald (Asheville, N.C.) – 1933
- The Asheville Banner (Asheville, N.C.) – 1931
- The Good Roads Bulletin (Asheville, N.C.) – 1900
- The Workman (Asheville, N.C.) – 1901
- Our Mountain Home (Asheville, N.C.) – 1906
- The Church Advocate (Asheville, N.C.) – 1943
- Mountain Home-Journal (Asheville, N.C.) – 1891
- Western North Carolina Methodist (Asheville, N.C.) – 1891-1892
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 have over 60 titles up on DigitalNC this week! While these papers are from all over North Carolina, about a third are from western Carolina. 18 from Asheville, one from Morganton, as well as our first additions from Bryson City and Bakersville! Bakersville, which gives us The Mountain Voice, only has a population of 466, but is home to the North Carolina Rhododendron Festival. Started in 1947, the festival was a relatively small affair until Spruce Pine resident O.D. Calhoun came into the picture. Calhoun owned several movie theaters across North Carolina and apparently had contacts to Walt Disney. He used these connections to promote the festival and make it into a nationally renowned event. It’s estimated that between five and ten thousand people attended the festival when Richard Nixon made an appearance in 1958.
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 Blue Ridge Blade (Morganton, N.C.) – 1876-1881
- North Carolina Advertiser (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1865
- Carolina Beacon and Metropolitan Omnibus (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1840
- Republican Touchstone (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1840
- North-Carolina Statesman (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1854
- The Independent (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1843-1845
- Democratic Flag (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1848
- The American Signal (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1856
- The Daily Telegraph (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1862
- Weekly Ad Valorem Banner (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1861
- Daily Ad Valorem Banner (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1861
- The National Democrat (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1860
- The Randolph Bulletin (Asheboro, N.C.) – 1910-1912
- The Asheboro Courier (Asheboro, N.C.) – 1918-1921
- Asheville Semi-Weekly Journal (Asheville, N.C.) – 1879
- The Western Tribune (Asheville, N.C.) – 1885
- Mountain Home-Journal (Asheville, N.C.) – 1892
- The Asheville Advertiser (Asheville, N.C.) – 1890
- The Buncombe Reformer (Asheville, N.C.) – 1893
- The Skyland Herald (Asheville, N.C.) – 1886
- The Evening Journal (Asheville, N.C.) – 1889
- Asheville Spectator (Asheville, N.C.) – 1853-1858
- Town Topics (Asheville, N.C.) – 1887
- The Daily Advance (Asheville, N.C.) – 1884-1885
- Asheville Daily Advance (Asheville, N.C.) – 1885-1887
- The Asheville Advance (Asheville, N.C.) – 1887-1888
- The Asheville Register (Asheville, N.C.) – 1901-1905
- The State Reporter (Asheville, N.C.) – 1896
- The Smoky Mountain Times (Bryson City, N.C.) – 1895-1896
- Sylvan Valley News (Brevard, N.C.) – 1916
- The Weekly Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1890
- Asheville Weekly Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1890-1892
- The Albemarle Press (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1922-1925
- The Bayboro Sentinel (Bayboro, N.C.) – 1902-1913
- Columbian Repository (Chapel Hill, N.C.) – 1836
- The Chapel Hillian (Chapel Hill, N.C.) – 1891
- The Harbinger (Chapel Hill, N.C.) – 1833-1834
- Orange County Independent (Chapel Hill, N.C.) – 1894
- The Independent (Chapel Hill, N.C.) – 1894
- The Chapel Hill Weekly Gazette (Chapel Hill, N.C.) – 1857
- Chapel Hill Literary Gazette (Chapel Hill, N.C.) – 1857-1858
- The Chapel Hill Gazette (Chapel Hill, N.C.) – 1858
- Burke County Times (Morganton, N.C.) – 1917-1918
- The Morning Post (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1898
- North Carolina Temperance Union (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1842
- The Southern Advertiser, and Appendix to the “Southern Weekly Post” (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1853
- Democratic State Flag (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1848
- The Deaf Mute (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1850
- North Carolina State Advertiser (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1871
- The Mercury (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1864
- The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1919
- The Post (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1869
- Western Carolina Advocate (Asheville, N.C.) – 1892-1983
- Daily Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1886
- North Carolina Christian Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1912-1917
- The Cape-Fear Recorder (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1816-1829
- The High Point Enterprise (High Point, N.C.) – 1886
- Asheville Gazette-News (Asheville, N.C.) – 1914
- The Mountain Voice (Bakersville, N.C.) – 1880
- The Daily Bulletin (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1859-1876
- The Evening Bulletin (Charlotte, 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.