We have another 30 titles up on DigitalNC this week! This batch brings us our first newspapers from Dallas, Fairmont, Lake Landing, Maiden, and Newland, North Carolina!

In the January 8^th, 1891 issue of the Monroe Enquirer-Register we have an ad for a fledging discount store in Monroe, North Carolina called The New York Racket, which will become the shopping mall staple we know as Belk. Founded by William Henry Belk in 1888, the store would change its name to Belk Brothers in 1898 and go on to become one of the largest department store chains in the country.

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:

Belhaven

• The Belhaven Citizen (Belhaven, N.C.) – 1914
• The Belhaven Times (Belhaven, N.C.) – 1929
• The Belhaven Times and the Hyde County Record (Belhaven, N.C.) – 1933-1934

Black Mountain

• The Black Mountain News (Black Mountain, N.C.) – 1980

Creedmoor

• Creedmoor News (Creedmoor, N.C.) – 1913

Dallas

• The Dallas Eagle (Dallas, N.C.) – 1891
• The Truth (Dallas, N.C.) – 1903

Fairmont

• The Fairmont Times (Fairmont, N.C.) – 1933
• The Times-Messenger (Fairmont, N.C.) – 1941
• The Fairmont Messenger (Fairmont, N.C.) – 1941

Forest City

• The Carolina News (Forest City, N.C.) – 1952

Gastonia

• The Community Survey (Gastonia, N.C.) – 1921

Iredell County

• The County News (Iredell County, N.C.) – 1953

Lake Landing

• The Mattamuskeet Clarion (Lake Landing, N.C.) – 1925

Lincolnton

• The Lincoln County Times (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1908

Maiden

• The Maiden Times (Maiden, N.C.) – 1969-1974

Manteo

• The Coastland Times With Which is Combined The Pilot and Herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter (Manteo, N.C.) – 1963-1974

Monroe

• Monroe Enquirer-Register (Monroe, N.C.) – 1891

Mooresville

• The Mooresville Record (Mooresville, N.C.) – 1897
• The Record-Times (Mooresville, N.C.) – 1899
• The Rounder and the News Leader (Mooresville, N.C.) – 1937
• The News Leader (Mooresville, N.C.) – 1939

Newland

• The Avery Post (Newland, N.C.) – 1955

Rocky Mount

• The Evening Telegram (Rocky Mount, N.C.) – 1916-1954

Shelby

• The Highlander and Shelby News (Shelby, N.C.) – 1921

Statesville

• The New Deal (Statesville, N.C.) – 1933-1934
• Statesville Daily Record (Statesville, N.C.) – 1947-1953
• The Iredell Morning News (Statesville, N.C.) – 1956-1959

Swan Quarter

• Hyde County Record (Swan Quarter, N.C.) – 1928-1930

Taylorsville

• The Taylorsville News (Taylorsville, N.C.) – 1895

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.