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This week we have tens of thousands of issues up on DigitalNC! In this batch we have over 1,000 issues of The High Point Enterprise and Lenoir News-Topic, more than 4,000 issues of The Charlotte Observer and The News & Observer, 5,000 issues of the Goldsboro Daily Argus, over 5,500 issues of The Kinston Free Press, 7,000 issues of the Asheville Citizen, and more!
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
Charlotte
Concord
Davidson
Durham
Edenton
Elizabeth City
Elkin
Fayetteville
Gastonia
Goldsboro
Graham
Greensboro
Halifax
Hickory
High Point
Kinston
Lenoir
Raleigh
Shelby
Wilmington
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 34 newspaper titles up on DigitalNC, including four from Carthage, North Carolina: Former home to the Tyson & Jones Buggy Company.
The “Jones” of the Tyson & Jones Buggy Company was William T. Jones, who was born into slavery and became one of the most well-respected and wealthiest businessmen in Carthage. Born near Elizabethtown in 1833, his father was a plantation owner and his mother was an enslaved person. Prior to the Civil War, he was given his freedom and moved to Fayetteville to work as a painter for a carriage company. It was there that his work was noticed by Thomas Tyson, who convinced him to come to Carthage to work for his fledgling operation in 1857, and by 1859 Jones was made a partner in that company. In 1861, Jones joined the Confederate Army and was subsequently captured by Union forces. While imprisoned at Fort Delaware, Jones began making moonshine from potato peelings and bread crusts and selling it to the Union guards. After Sherman’s March left much of the area devastated, it was the Jones’ moonshine money that allowed the Tyson & Jones Buggy Company to restart production, employing many struggling locals and helping to restart the local economy.
Even though Jones was a captain of industry, North Carolina House of Representatives candidate, and Sunday School teacher with a legacy that lives on in Carthage, it was not widely acknowledged that he wasn’t White. It wasn’t until recently that him being a Black man was recognized as fact and his full story was told.

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 Central Times (Dunn, N.C.) – 1892-1894
- The Albemarle Chronicle (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1912
- The Chronicle (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1912-1915
- Daily Concord Standard (Concord, N.C.) – 1898-1899
- The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.) – 1899
- Moore Gazette (Carthage, N.C.) – 1881-1885
- The Carthaginian (Carthage, N.C.) – 1878
- Moore Index (Carthage, N.C.) – 1879-1880
- The Southern Protectionist (Carthage, N.C.) – 1888
- The Sampson Democrat (Clinton, N.C.) – 1920-1921
- The High Point Enterprise (High Point, N.C.) – 1893-1915
- Daily Enterprise (High Point, N.C.) – 1906-1908
- The Patriot and Times (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1869
- The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1869-1918
- Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1880
- The Daily Evening Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1890
- The Watchman and Harbinger (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1863-1864
- The New North State (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1878
- The North State (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1878-1885
- The Beacon (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1880
- The Rowan Record (China Grove, N.C.) – 1909-1919
- China Grove Record (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1920-1925
- Jackson County Journal (Sylva, N.C.) – 1913-1919
- The Ansonian (Wadesboro, N.C.) – 1907-1908
- The Pender Chronicle (Burgaw, N.C.) – 1912-1943
- Harnett County News (Lillington, N.C.) – 1919-1922
- Goldsboro’ News (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1867-1873
- Goldsboro Daily Messenger (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1869
- Goldsboro Daily Argus (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1911
- The Evening Review (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1875-1877
- The Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1881
- The Tribune (Henderson, N.C.) – 1873-1876
- The Henderson Pioneer (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1866-1867
- The Daily Herald (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1911-1912
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.

In following with our collaboration with newspapers.com, we have another large batch of newspapers this week! 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 we have over 5,000 issues of The Wilmington Morning Star. The paper was founded in 1867 by former Confederate Major William H. Bernard and played a role in stoking the Wilmington Massacre of 1898. In November of 1898 a biracial government was legitimately elected in Wilmington, which the paper claimed to be fraudulent. Earlier that year, Daily Record editor, Alexander Manly, published an article proposing that it was possible for white women to be attracted to black men. The Morning Star found this to be “vile and slanderous” and riled a mob of angry white supremacists to burn down the paper’s office then claim that they had not started the violence. The following clippings are from November 9, 10, and 11. The day before the massacre, the day of, and the day after.


Here are the rest of this week’s additions:
- Weekly Progress (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1864-1867
- The Raleigh Minerva (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1810-1821
- Daily Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1873-1886
- The Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1830-1861
- The Raleigh Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1876-1880
- The Raleigh Times (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1911-1912
- The North Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1892-1908
- The Morning Post (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1899-1905
- The Raleigh Post (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1900
- The Times-Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1895-1900
- The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1919
- The Raleigh Enterprise (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1904-1907
- Raleigh Christian Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1871-1915
- The Daily Progress (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1865-1867
- Asheville Gazette-News (Asheville, N.C.) – 1898-1915
- Asheville Daily Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1891
- The Press-Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1891-1898
- The Raleigh Evening Times (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1906
- The Progressive Farmer and Southern Farm Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1913-1916
- The Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1898-1922
- The Daily Conservative (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1864-1865
- The Newbern Gazette (New Bern, N.C.) – 1764-1801
- The Wilmington Herald (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1865
- Newbern Weekly Progress (New Bern, N.C.) – 1862-1863
- The State Gazette of North-Carolina (New Bern, N.C.) – 1797-1799
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.

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 Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1867-1901
- Carolina Centinel (New Bern, N.C.) – 1818-1822
- The Newbernian (New Bern, N.C.) – 1843-1848
- Newbern Spectator (New Bern, N.C.) – 1834
- New Berne Daily Times (New Bern, N.C.) – 1866-1874
- The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1890-1907
- The New Era and Commercial Advertiser (New Bern, N.C.) – 1854-1859
- Daily Progress (New Bern, N.C.) – 1858-1861
- The Carolina Farmer and Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1871-1874
- The Daily Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1882-1914
- The Morning New Bernian (New Bern, N.C.) – 1916-1917
- The Encyclopedian Instructor and Farmer’s Gazette (Edenton, N.C.) – 1785-1801
- The Herald of the Union (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1865
- The Daily Herald (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1854-1861
- The Weekly Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1892-1896
- The New Bern Sun Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1920-1922
- New Berne Weekly Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1884-1913
- Saturday Record (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1915-1937
- North-Carolina Gazette (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1769-1800
- The Daily Dispatch (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1865-1866
- The New Bernian (New Bern, N.C.) – 1921-1924
- North Carolina Christian Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1874-1909
- The Daily Progress (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1862-1864
- The Raleigh News (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1872-1880
- The Friend of Temperance (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1868-1879
- Newbern Sentinel (New Bern, N.C.) – 1834-1837
- Weekly Conservative (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1864-1865
- The Farmer and Mechanic (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1905
- The Raleigh Microcosm (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1838-1843
- The Morning Post (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1897-1899
- The Harbinger (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1902-1904
- The Daily Evening Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1892-1893
- The Raleigh Evening Times (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1905-1908
- The Evening Times (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1908-1910
- The Raleigh Daily Times (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1910
- The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1906-1922
- The Wilmington Post (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1867-1877
- The Evening Dispatch (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1914
- The Evening Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1879-1881
- The Friend and Templar (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1876-1880
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.

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.
Here are this week’s additions:
- The Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1868-1873
- The Cape-Fear Recorder (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1829-1832
- The Weekly Transcript and Messenger (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1874-1889
- The Carolina Federal Republican (New Bern, N.C.) – 1809-1818
- The Newbern Journal of Commerce (New Bern, N.C.) – 1866-1876
- New Bern Republican (New Bern, N.C.) – 1867-1868
- The Daily Nut Shell (New Bern, N.C.) – 1875-1883
- North Carolina Sentinel (New Bern, N.C.) – 1830-1833
- Newbern Spectator (New Bern, N.C.) – 1828-1842
- New Berne Times (New Bern, N.C.) – 1865-1873
- Weekly Commercial (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1848-1854
- The Weekly Intelligencer (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1859-1865
- The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1888-1908
- The Chronicle (New Bern, N.C.) – 1897
- New Bern Democrat (New Bern, N.C.) – 1879-1900
- The Courier (New Bern, N.C.) – 1894
- The Daily Liberal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1872
- The Republican (New Bern, N.C.) – 1847-1849
- The Weekly Union (New Bern, N.C.) – 1856-1859
- The Weekly News (New Bern, N.C.) – 1853
- Daily Commercial News (New Bern, N.C.) – 1881-1882
- The Newbernian (New Bern, N.C.) – 1874-1883
- The Cape Fear (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1876-1877
- The Carolina Farmer and Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1869-1870
- The Morning New Bernian (New Bern, N.C.) – 1917-1920
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 are sharing the second installment of titles on DigitalNC that were brought to us by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) in a cooperative effort with the North Carolina Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries.
The NDNP is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress with the intention of creating a vast, searchable database of newspapers and other historical documents. You can currently search all of the NDNP issues on the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America website. Those same issues will be available on our newspaper database, allowing you to search that content alongside the other papers on DigitalNC. The week’s titles are the following:
- Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.) – 1888-1934
- Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1931-1937
- The Tarborough Southerner (Tarboro, N.C.) – 1848-1876
- The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1853-1887
- Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1836-1858
- Marion Progress (Marion, N.C.) – 1930-1931
- The News and Views (Jacksonville, N.C.) – 1942-1952
- Fisherman & Farmer (Edenton, N.C.) – 1889-1901
- The Farmer and Mechanic (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1877-1915
- The Free Press (Southern Pines, N.C.) – 1898-1905
- The Commonwealth (Scotland Neck, N.C.) – 1888
- The Review (High Point, N.C.) – 1910-1921
- Rockingham Post-Dispatch (Rockingham, N.C.) – 1917-1922
- French Broad Hustler (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1905-1919
- The Durham Daily Globe (Durham, N.C.) – 1887-1894
- The Semi-Weekly Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1897-1908
- Journal of Freedom (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1865
- The Sun (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1883-1885
- The North-Carolinian (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1842-1857
- Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1941-1946
- The Robesonian (Lumberton, N.C.) – 1872-1918
- Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.) – 1886
- The State Chronicle (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1883-1892
- The Daily Caucasian (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1895
- The Gold Leaf (Henderson, N.C.) – 1882-1911
- The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.) – 1884-1913
- The Durham Recorder (Durham, N.C.) – 1879-1911
- The Hillsborough Recorder (Hillsborough, N.C.) – 1836-1879
- Henderson Daily Dispatch (Henderson, N.C.) – 1932-1940
- Hillsboro Recorder (Hillsborough, N.C.) – 1887-1888
- The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1935-1939
- The Lincoln Times (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1935-1962
- The Southern News (Asheville, N.C.) – 1938-1962
- Charlotte Messenger (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1882-1889
- The Weekly Intelligencer (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1864-1865
- The Educator (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1874-1875
- The Chapel Hill Weekly (Chapel Hill, N.C.) – 1930-1934
- Wilmington Journal (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1844-1876
- Cherokee Scout (Murphy, N.C.) – 1890-1917
- The Daily Confederate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1864-1865
- The Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1891-1898
- Our Living and Our Dead (New Bern, N.C.) – 1873-1874
- North Carolina Republican (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1880
- Weekly Confederate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1864-1865
- The Monroe Journal (Monroe, N.C.) – 1903-1922
- The Journal of Industry (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1879-1880
- North Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1885
- The Skyland Post (West Jefferson, N.C.) – 1935-1947
- The Coastland Times (Manteo, N.C.) – 1951-1962
- The Burke County News (Morganton, N.C.) – 1899-1900
- The Fool-Killer (Boomer, N.C.) – 1910-1922
- Orange County Observer (Hillsborough, N.C.) – 1880-1916
This concludes the list of newspapers that we are sharing from the NDNP. 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.

Starting this week, we will have an update every Friday on new titles being added to our newspaper collection during a year-long project to bring already digitized content from the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) and Newspapers.com onto the DigitalNC newspaper platform.
This week we are sharing a list of the many new titles on DigitalNC that were brought to us by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) in conjunction with the North Carolina Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries. The NDNP is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress with the intention of creating a vast, searchable database of newspapers and other historical documents. While you can currently search all of the NDNP issues on the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America website, adding those same issues to our newspaper database will allow you to search that content alongside the other papers on DigitalNC. The titles in this batch include:
- The Goldsboro Star (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1881-1882
- Fisherman & Farmer (Edenton, N.C.) – 1887-1901
- The Hillsborough Recorder (Hillsborough, N.C.) – 1820-1835
- The Daily Times (Wilson, N.C.) – 1918-1922
- The Wilson Times (Wilson, N.C.) – 1896-1922
- The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.) – 1857-1885
- The Daily Independent (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1936-1937
- The Southland Advocate (Asheville, N.C.) – 1950
- The Southern News (Asheville, N.C.) – 1938
- The Peoples’ Advocate (New Bern, N.C.) – 1886
- African Expositor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1886
- The Independent (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1919-1936
- Goldsboro Weekly Argus (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1892-1909
- Spirit of the Age (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1850-1865
- The Banner-Enterprise (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1883-1884
- Die Suedliche Post (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1869
- Henderson Daily Dispatch (Henderson, N.C.) – 1940-1946
- Hickory Daily Record (Hickory, N.C.) – 1915-1922
- The Chapel Hill Weekly (Chapel Hill, N.C.) – 1923-1963
- The Tri-Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1866-1868
- The North Carolina Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1853-1865
- Newbern Progress (New Bern, N.C.) – 1863
- Newbern Weekly Progress (New Bern, N.C.) – 1858-1863
- The Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1836-1870
- Asheville Daily Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1885-1894
- The Times-News (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1933-1938
- The Laurinburg Post (Laurinburg, N.C.) – 1895
- The Progressive Farmer and the Cotton Plant (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1886-1905
- Daily Herald (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) – 1923-1948
- Tabor City Tribune (Tabor City, N.C.) – 1946-1963
- The Lincoln Times (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1935-1956
- The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1890-1905
- Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1940-1947
Over the next few weeks we will be uploading more newspapers from NDNP. 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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