Our collection of The Bessemer City Record has just expanded, thanks to our partners at the Bessemer City History and Arts Society. Since 1995, The Bessemer City History and Arts Society has preserved and shared the town’s history, and we are excited to help make these newspapers available digitally for anyone to read. With this newest addition, DigitalNC now hosts complete runs of the paper from 1964-1967, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1979-1981, as well as various issues from 1958-1960, 1968, 1970, 1972-1977, and 1994. Additionally, this batch includes a single issue of The Gastonia Gazette from December 4, 1968. With thirty years now at least partially covered on the site, researchers and genealogists can take advantage of the amazing resource that is The Bessemer City Record to gain insight into the local and national issues that concerned Bessemer City residents.

See all digitized issues of The Bessemer City Record here, and visit the Bessemer City History and Arts Society contributor page here to learn more. To browse all of the newspapers we have available on DigitalNC, you can find them here.