This week we have another 24 titles up on DigitalNC, including one of the state’s oldest papers: The State Gazette of North-Carolina!

The State Gazette was founded by Abraham Hodge and Andrew Blanchard in 1785. Hodge, born 1755 in the colony of New York, worked as a patriot printer during the American Revolution and even operated George Washington’s traveling press at Valley Forge in 1778. While stationed there, he printed official orders, commissions, and recruitment posters for the Continental Army. Seeking a warmer climate after the war, Hodge relocated to Halifax, N.C., where he would go on to own printing presses in Edenton, Halifax, Fayetteville, and New Bern. In addition to newspapers, he was named printer of the North Carolina General Assembly and printed the state’s laws in 1786. He was also one of the first people to contribute to the library of The University of North Carolina.

March 5, 1795 issue of The State Gazette of North-Carolina. Less than a month after The University of North Carolina opened its doors to students.

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 Bulletin (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1862-1863
• Goldsboro Messenger (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1880-1887
• The Greensborough Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1851-1856
• The Patriot and Flag (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1857-1858
• The Greensborough Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1858-1868
• The Patriot and Times (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1868
• The Little Ad (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1860
• The North Carolina Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1878-1880
• The State Gazette of North-Carolina (New Bern, N.C.) – 1787-1796
• The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.) – 1912-1914
• Eastern Courier (Hertford, N.C.) – 1897-1898
• Economist and Falcon (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1891-1893
• Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1900-1902
• The Standard (Concord, N.C.) – 1896-1899
• The Daily Standard (Concord, N.C.) – 1892
• The Concord Times (Concord, N.C.) – 1910-1912
• The Evening Tribune (Concord, N.C.) – 1906-1907
• The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.) – 1912-1923
• The Davie Record (Mocksville, N.C.) – 1919-1920
• The Anglo-Saxon (Rockingham, N.C.) – 1899-1901
• Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1896
• The Reporter and Post (Danbury, N.C.) – 1882-1884
• The Danbury Reporter-Post (Danbury, N.C.) – 1884-1891
• The Danbury Reporter (Danbury, N.C.) – 1894-1917

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 41 titles up on DigitalNC! In this batch we have a lot of new papers from Durham and Beaufort, as well as our first additions from Mocksville, Pine Forest, and Kenansville!

Last month we added our first copies of The Nation from Buffalo Springs. The Nation was a handwritten paper published by John McLean Harrington, a Harnett County man who would painstakingly copy each of his papers by hand for his roughly 100 subscribers. This week we have five more of Harrington’s handwritten papers: The Young American from Buffalo Springs, The Weekly Eagle from Pine Forest, and Harrington, N.C.’s The Times, The Weekly News, and The Semi-Weekly News.

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 Clinton Independent (Clinton, N.C.) – 1856-1858
• Eastern Courier (Hertford, N.C.) – 1895-1896
• The Nation (Buffalo Springs, N.C.) – 1858
• The Young American (Buffalo Springs, N.C.) – 1858
• The Weekly Eagle (Pine Forest, N.C.) – 1860
• The Eagle (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1868-1873
• The Semi-Weekly News (Harrington, N.C.) – 1860
• The Weekly News (Harrington, N.C.) – 1860-1864
• The Times (Harrington, N.C.) – 1867-1869
• Eastern Carolina News (Kenansville, N.C.) – 1908-1911
• The Chronicle (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1916-1917
• The Enterprise (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1917-1918
• The Albemarle Enterprise (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1919
• The News (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1919
• Stanly County Herald (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1919
• The Stanly News-Herald (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1919
• The Weekly Record (Beaufort, N.C.) – 1887-1888
• The Beaufort Eagle (Beaufort, N.C.) – 1876
• The Herald (Beaufort, N.C.) – 1893
• Beaufort Journal (Beaufort, N.C.) – 1857-1858
• Carteret County Telephone (Beaufort, N.C.) – 1881-1885
• The Clayton Bud (Clayton, N.C.) – 1883-1886
• The Weekly Bud (Smithfield, N.C.) – 1886-1887
• Creedmoor Times-News (Creedmoor, N.C.) – 1915-1919
• Durham Daily Dispatch (Durham, N.C.) – 1880
• The Durham Herald (Durham, N.C.) – 1876
• The Durham County Republican (Durham, N.C.) – 1884
• The Truth (Durham, N.C.) – 1884
• Daily Record (Durham, N.C.) – 1898
• The Daily Reporter (Durham, N.C.) – 1885
• The Durham Weekly Globe (Durham, N.C.) – 1889-1892
• Durham Globe (Durham, N.C.) – 1895-1896
• Saturday Night (Durham, N.C.) – 1893
• The Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1826-1827
• The Carolina Beacon (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1836-1837
• Southern Telescope (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1837
• The Carolina Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1837-1839
• The Davie Times (Mocksville, N.C.) – 1887-1903
• The Davie Record (Mocksville, N.C.) – 1899-1922
• Chatham Observer (Pittsboro, N.C.) – 1901-1904
• Chatham Citizen (Pittsboro, N.C.) – 1897-1899
• The Day (Oxford, N.C.) – 1890-1892
• The Concord Times (Concord, N.C.) – 1895-1897
• The Evening Tribune (Concord, N.C.) – 1904-1910
• Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.) – 1910-1921

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.