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.

This week we have an astounding 80 titles up on DigitalNC! These papers span all across the state, covering 22 of North Carolina’s 100 counties! We have papers from smaller communities, like The Free Press from the town of Forest City (Fun fact: Forest City was originally named “Burnt Chimney” after a house that burned own in the area, leaving only a charred chimney behind). We also have well-established papers from Raleigh, such as The Raleigh Times and Evening Visitor, giving us a cross section of the entire state.

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:

• Raleigh Christian Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1918-1919
• The Davidson Dispatch (Lexington, N.C.) – 1886-1902
• The Dispatch (Lexington, N.C.) – 1902-1922
• Carolina Messenger (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1869-1877
• Goldsboro Messenger (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1878-1883
• The Daily Capital (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1891
• The Daily Call (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1889-1896
• The Hayseeder (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1896-1898
• The Daily Dispatch (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1880
• Daily Morning Record (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1881
• Greensboro Evening Telegram (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1897-1900
• Greensboro Telegram (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1900-1910
• Greenville Daily News (Greenville, N.C.) – 1917-1920
• Greenville News (Greenville, N.C.) – 1920-1921
• North Carolina Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1888
• The Live Giraffe (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1852-1859
• The Democratic Press (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1859-1860
• The Daily Democratic Press (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1860
• Hale’s Weekly (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1879-1880
• The Golden Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1891
• State Prohibition Organ (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1881
• The Advertiser (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1893
• Beans (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1887
• Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1897-1900
• The Daily Press (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1894-1895
• The Press-Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1896
• The Times-Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1900
• The Raleigh Times and Evening Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1900
• Daily Industrial News (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1905-1909
• Carolina Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1816-1830
• The Franklin Times (Louisburg, N.C.) – 1879-1909
• The Topic (Lenoir, N.C.) – 1882
• The Lenoir Topic (Lenoir, N.C.) – 1882-1898
• The Western North Carolina Times (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1901-1923
• The Free Press (and Forest City Herald) (Forest City, N.C.) – 1915
• The Free Press (Forest City, N.C.) – 1916
• Forest City Courier (Forest City, N.C.) – 1924
• Everything (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1913-1918
• Davidson County News (Lexington, N.C.) – 1897-1898
• The Press and Carolinian (Hickory, N.C.) – 1893-1896
• The Lincoln County News (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1907-1918
• The Catawba County News (Newton, N.C.) – 1911
• The Franklin Press (Franklin, N.C.) – 1903-1906
• The Daily Workman (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1889-1891
• Greensboro Daily Workman (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1891-1892
• Goldsboro Weekly Argus (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1903-1905
• Asheville Daily Gazette (Asheville, N.C.) – 1897-1898
• Asheville Gazette-News (Asheville, N.C.) – 1910-1914
• The Asheville Times (Asheville, N.C.) – 1917
• The Old North State (Beaufort, N.C.) – 1865
• The Sampson Democrat (Clinton, N.C.) – 1892-1901
• The Concord Register (Concord, N.C.) – 1875-1885
• The Democratic Pioneer (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1850-1859
• The Patriot, and Greensborough Palladium (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1827-1829
• Greensborough Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1829-1836
• The Greensborough Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1839-1850
• The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1918-1922
• The Eagle (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1868-1875
• The Concord Sun (Concord, N.C.) – 1876-1877
• The American (Statesville, N.C.) – 1865-1869
• The Statesville American (Statesville, N.C.) – 1870-1886
• The Statesville American and Tobacco Journal (Statesville, N.C.) – 1881
• The Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1872-1890
• Economist and Falcon (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1894-1895
• Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1895-1897
• Asheville News (Asheville, N.C.) – 1851-1865
• The Asheville News and Western Farmer (Asheville, N.C.) – 1868
• The Asheville News and Mountain Farmer (Asheville, N.C.) – 1869
• The Randolph Bulletin (Asheboro, N.C.) – 1905-1915
• The Weekly Register (Asheville, N.C.) – 1884-1894
• The State Register (Asheville, N.C.) – 1895-1896
• The Asheville Register (Asheville, N.C.) – 1899-1900
• The Daily Sun (Asheville, N.C.) – 1888
• The Carthage Blade (Carthage, N.C.) – 1896-1907
• The Dunn Signboard (Dunn, N.C.) – 1887-1888
• The Harnett Courier (Dunn, N.C.) – 1888-1889
• Asheville Weekly Citizen (Asheville, N.C) – 1893-1894
• Asheville Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1894
• The Semi-Weekly Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1901
• The Clinton Reporter (Clinton, N.C.) – 1873-1874

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.

Another 32 newspaper titles are up on DigitalNC this week! Three of these titles are from North Carolina towns that either changed their names or just don’t exist anymore.

First, we have the North Carolina National from Company Shops, North Carolina. Company Shops was a community formed around the railroad car construction and maintenance industry in Alamance County, between Graham and Gibsonville. Due to growing anti-railroad sentiments, the community of Company Shops decided to appoint a committee to change the name of the town in 1887. This committee decided on the name ‘Burlington.’

Next up is Our Home from Beaver Dam, North Carolina. It’s hard to determine exactly where Beaver Dam would have been, but knowing that the paper is from Union County, it seems possible that it was located near Beaverdam Creek, just south of Wingate and Marshville, North Carolina.

Lastly, we have The Hokeville Express from what was once known as Hokeville, or ‘Lincoln Factory,’ North Carolina. It seems likely that the community was named after the affluent Hoke family of Lincolnton. Col. John Hoke was one of the owners of the profitable Lincoln Cotton Mills. Col. Hoke died in 1845 and passed ownership on to his son, also named John Hoke. The factory burned down in 1862, and the following year the Confederate Army began constructing a laboratory on the site to manufacture medicines, such as ether, chloroform, and opiates. Since then the community has gone by the name ‘Laboratory.’

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 Standard (Concord, N.C.) – 1893-1895
• Daily Concord Standard (Concord, N.C.) – 1895-1902
• Southern Voice (Bethel, N.C.) – 1890
• Berea Gazette (Berea, N.C.) – 1877-1878
• North Carolina National (Company Shops, N.C.) – 1882
• The Alliance Weekly (Hillsborough, N.C.) – 1896
• Hillsborough Plaindealer (Hillsborough, N.C.) – 1861
• North Carolina Democrat (Hillsborough, N.C.) – 1849-1850
• The Naked Truth (High Point, N.C.) – 1896
• Farm and Fireside (High Point, N.C.) – 1883
• High Point Reporter (High Point, N.C.) – 1860
• Our Home (Beaver Dam, N.C.) – 1893
• The Progressive Reformer (Kings Mountain, N.C.) – 1896
• The Ashe Reporter (Jefferson, N.C.) – 1892
• The Southern Home (Kernersville, N.C.) – 1887
• The Hokeville Express (Hokeville, N.C.) – 1855
• Gazette (Kinston, N.C.) – 1873
• The Mountaineer (Morganton, N.C.) – 1883
• The Carolina Mountaineer (Morganton, N.C.) – 1883-1884
• The Anglo-Saxon (Rockingham, N.C.) – 1902-1908
• The Ansonian (Polkton, N.C.) – 1874-1876
• Jonesville Enterprise (Jonesville, N.C.) – 1858
• The Rubicon (Yanceyville, N.C.) – 1840
• The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.) – 1910-1918
• The Burlington News (Burlington, N.C.) – 1900
• New Berne Weekly Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1908-1910
• The Anson Times (Wadesboro, N.C.) – 1881-1886
• The Moore County News (Carthage, N.C.) – 1920-1922
• The Canton Enterprise (Canton, N.C.) – 1920-1942
• The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.) – 1904-1922
• The Times (Concord, N.C.) – 1885-1894
• The Concord Times (Concord, N.C.) – 1894-1922

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 added issues from 35 different newspaper titles! One of the titles we have is a paper from the now non-existent town of Buffalo Springs, North Carolina. According to this News & Record article, the Harnett County town ceased to exist when the turpentine industry in the area died out. But the intriguing thing about these papers isn’t the ghost of this town, it’s the man who wrote them: John McLean Harrington. Professor and author Michael Ray Smith penned this fascinating paper about Harrington and his newspapers, in which he writes: “Shortly before the Civil War, the son of an affluent Southern family began a journalism career unlike any in his community, his state, or even the nation and produced 305 handwritten newspapers, perhaps the greatest single output of handwritten newspapers by any American journalist.” Harrington had a subscription list of roughly 100 people and would painstakingly copy each individual paper by hand, even though printing presses were widely available at the time. In 1858, when Harrington was writing issues of The Nation, he was only 19 years old. The young man’s ambitions didn’t stop with just being a journalist. He also apparently worked as a bookkeeper, surveyor, educator, sheriff, and postmaster in Harnett County. While his accomplishments were quite impressive, he was also a man of contradiction. Smith writes this of the rural Renaissance man: “He talked of a partner but never revealed the colleague’s identity—if he indeed had one. He discussed the evil of drinking but died an alcoholic. He served as a member of the Confederate militia only to swear an oath that he would always remain a loyal Unionist. Perhaps Harrington tended to do or say whatever was expedient or expected at the time. Maybe he was himself just conflicted in numerous ways.”

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 Tri-Weekly Bulletin (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1865-1881
• Asheville Pioneer (Asheville, N.C.) – 1867-1869
• Weekly Pioneer (Asheville, N.C.) – 1870-1874
• The Carolina Eagle (Hickory, N.C.) – 1871-1872
• Mountain Messenger (Jefferson, N.C.) – 1873
• Battleboro Advance (Rocky Mount, N.C.) – 1871-1873
• The Weekly Ansonian (Polkton, N.C.) – 1876-1877
• The Southern Mail (Hillsborough, N.C.) – 1880
• The Carolina Republican (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1848-1853
• Yadkin & Catawba Journal (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1828-1833
• The Journal (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1833-1834
• The Hornet (Bixby, N.C.) – 1908
• The Courier (Asheboro, N.C.) – 1922-1924
• The Asheville Democrat (Asheville, N.C.) – 1889-1891
• Monthly Gleaner (Asheville, N.C.) – 1894-1895
• Fuller’s Gleaner (Asheville, N.C.) – 1895-1896
• The Dispatch (Bessemer City, N.C.) – 1912
• The Carthage Blade (Carthage, N.C.) – 1887-1895
• The Central Times (Dunn, N.C.) – 1895
• County Union (Dunn, N.C.) – 1895-1899
• The Transylvania Hustler (Brevard, N.C.) – 1893
• The Brevard Hustler (Brevard, N.C.) – 1896
• The Western Carolina Democrat (Bakersville, N.C.) – 1888
• Roan Mountain Republican (Bakersville, N.C.) – 1876-1879
• The Nation (Buffalo Springs, N.C.) – 1858
• Cape Fear News (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1915-1917
• Central Argus (Hamlet, N.C.) – 1880
• The Stanly Enterprise (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1903-1907
• The Albemarle Enterprise (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1912-1916
• The Stanly News-Herald (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1920-1922
• The Beaufort News (Beaufort, N.C.) – 1920-1922
• The State Dispatch (Burlington, N.C.) – 1908-1909
• Daily Carolina Times (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1864-1869
• The Standard (Concord, N.C.) – 1900-1902
• The Battleboro Progress (Battleboro, 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.

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.

We have 21 new titles this week, including a couple from Petersburg, Virginia! In 1863, printer John William Syme relocated the Raleigh Register to Petersburg, Virginia. Production continued only until 1864, when the scarcity of supplies forced him to cease publication.

This week we also have one of the earliest advertisements for Pepsi buried on the last page of this issue of the New Bern Daily Journal. Created in a New Bern drug store in 1893, Pepsi was originally named “Brad’s Drink” after its creator and store owner, Caleb Bradham. In 1898 Bradham, changed the name to “Pepsi-Cola,” and in 1902 registered a trademark for the name. The first ad, misspelled as “Pesi-Cola,” is from August 8th, 1902 and the second, with the corrected name, is from August 31st, 1902.

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:

• Raleigh Daily Telegram (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1871
• The Daily Register (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1850-1851
• Daily Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1868
• The Semi-Weekly Register (Petersburg, VA) – 1864
• Raleigh Register and North-Carolina State Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1800-1825
• Raleigh Register and North-Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1825-1841
• The Weekly Register (Petersburg, VA) – 1863
• The Progressive Farmer and Southern Farm Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1917
• The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1917
• The Evening Dispatch (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1916
• The Evening Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1894
• The Spirit of the Age (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1881-1894
• The Daily Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1884-1888
• New Bern Daily Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1900-1902
• Weekly Republican (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1874
• Asheville Daily Gazette (Asheville, N.C.) – 1900-1902
• Asheville Gazette-News (Asheville, N.C.) – 1913-1915
• The Asheville Times (Asheville, N.C.) – 1916
• The Asheville News (Asheville, N.C.) – 1880-1883
• Daily Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1864-1865
• Asheville Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1881-1888

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.

This week we have 44 newspaper titles up on DigitalNC ranging from 1799 t0 1919! The vast majority of these are Raleigh papers, but we also have some from Charlotte, Asheville, New Bern, Winston-Salem, and Chapel Hill.

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 Semi-Weekly Sentinel (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1866-1875
• Daily Sentinel (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1865-1876
• The Southern Field and Fireside (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1864-1865
• Raleigh Register and North-Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1826-1845
• Weekly North Carolina Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1853
• State Agriculture Journal (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1873-1875
• The Raleigh Sentinel (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1876-1877
• Southern Weekly Post (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1852-1955
• The Daily North-Carolina Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1866
• North Carolina Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1868-1869
• The Daily Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1869-1870
• The North-Carolina Star (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1850-1856
• Raleigh Star and North Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1839-1849
• Weekly State Journal (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1860-1884
• The State Journal (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1862-1863
• Weekly Post (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1851-1852
• The Star and North Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1833-1839
• The North Carolina Intelligencer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1890-1891
• The Home Rule (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1898
• The Rasp. (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1841-1842
• The Signal (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1879-1880
• The State Journal (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1913-1919
• The Field and Fireside (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1865-1867
• The Sentinel (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1866
• The Raleigh Star (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1850
• The Life Boat (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1865
• North Carolina Christian Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1904
• The Raleigh Minerva (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1809
• Raleigh Register and North-Carolina Weekly Advertiser (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1799-1800
• Daily Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1883
• Asheville Daily Gazette (Asheville, N.C.) – 1898-1900
• Asheville Gazette-News (Asheville, N.C.) – 1910-1915
• The Weekly Ledger (Chapel Hill, N.C.) – 1878-1879
• The Chapel Hill Ledger (Chapel Hill, N.C.) – 1879-1880
• The Weekly Catawba Journal (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1860-1865
• The Western Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1869-1870
• Hornets’ Nest and True Southron. (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1850-1851
• The Weekly Courier (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1873-1881
• Our Weekly (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1872-1873
• The New Bern Weekly Times (New Bern, N.C.) – 1873
• The People’s Press (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1833
• The Weekly News (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1872-1876
• The Daily News (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1876
• Spirit of the Age (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1874-1876

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 almost 30 newspaper titles added to DigitalNC. These titles include a Raleigh paper about agriculture and it’s “kindred arts,” an employee paper for North Carolina shipbuilders during World War II, and plenty of others from Wilmington, Raleigh, and New Bern!

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 North-Carolina Gazette (New Bern, N.C.) – 1751-1774
• Wilmington Gazette (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1816
• The Newbernian (New Bern, N.C.) – 1849-1853
• The Daily Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1871-1872
• The Daily Era (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1872-1873
• The Carolina Era (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1871
• The Farmer and Mechanic (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1899
• New Berne Times (New Bern, N.C.) – 1873
• The People’s Press and Wilmington Advertiser (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1835-1841
• The Daily Herald (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1856-1857
• The Sun (New Bern, N.C.) – 1908-1914
• Eastern Carolina Republican (New Bern, N.C.) – 1850-1851
• Republican and Patriot (New Bern, N.C.) – 1851-1852
• Daily Progress (New Bern, N.C.) – 1862-1863
• The Democratic Signal (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1843-1844
• North Carolina Christian Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1856-1858
• New Berne Weekly Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1882-1883
• New Bern Semi-Weekly Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1914
• The Daily Wilmington Herald (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1865-1866
• The Daily Dispatch (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1867
• The Evening Dispatch (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1895-1916
• New Berne Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1882
• The Arator (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1855-1857
• The North Carolina Shipbuilder (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1942-1946
• The Star (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1808-1815
• The Star and North Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1816-1834
• Daily Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1875-1884
• Daily State Journal (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1862-1865
• The Raleigh Sentinel (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1876

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.