Over the next year, the Digital Library of Georgia will be adding a variety of new newspaper titles to the Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) website (https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/). The digitization of these two groups of papers has been funded by the Georgia Public Library Service and the R. J. Taylor Foundation.
Below is the list of newspapers titles currently slated to be added to GHN in Fall 2021/Winter 2022.
Georgia Public Library Service-funded newspaper titles:
Advertiser (Cleveland), 1881
Brunswick Times, 1923-1932
Camila Enterprise, 1904-1926
Cleveland Advertiser, 1880-1881
Cleveland Courier, 1896-1965
Courier Sentinel (Ellijay), 1898-1899
Covington News, 1909-1924
Covington Star, 1885-1902
Ellijay Courier, 1877-1915
Ellijay Times, 1906-1915
Georgia Enterprise (Covington), 1889-1909
Pelham Journal, 1908-1924
Times-Courier (Ellijay), 1916-1924
R. J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation-funded newspaper titles:
Abbeville Chronicle, 1898-1901
Adel News, 1900-1904
Advertiser (Fort Gaines), 1887-1890
Advocate-Democrat (Crawfordville, Ga.), 1893-1899
American Union (West Bowersville), 1885-1893
Arlington Advance, 1879-1882
Ashburn Advance, 1897-1900
Banner-Messenger (Buchanan), 1891-1900
Baptist Reporter (Guyton), 1888
Blackshear News, 1878-1882
Blackshear Times, 1889-1901
Blairsville Free Press, 1892
Blairsville Herald, 1892-1902
Blue Ridge Post, 1893-1913
Bogart News, 1897
Bulloch County Banner (Statesboro), 1893
Bulloch Herald (Statesboro), 1899-1901
Bulloch Times (Statesboro), 1893-1898
Calhoun County Courier (Leary), 1882-1902
Carnesville Advance, 1899-1917
Carnesville Tribune, 1890-1894
Clay County Reformer (Fort Gaines), 1894
Clinch County News (Homerville), 1898-1911
Columbia Sentinel (Harlem), 1885-1923
Conyers Examiner, 1878-1883
Conyers Weekly, 1883-1888
Conyers Weekly, 1895-1901
Conyers Weekly-Banner, 1901-1902
Cordele Sentinel, 1899-1902
Correspondent (Roberta), 1892-1903
Crawford County Correspondent (Roberta), 1892
Crawford County Herald (Knoxville), 1890-1892
Crawfordville Advocate, 1895-1896
Crawfordville Democrat, 1881-1893
DeKalb News (Decatur), 1884
Democrat (Crawfordville), 1877-1881
Demorest Times, 1891-1894
Dispatch (Ocilla), 1899
Dodge County Journal (Eastman), 1887
DuPont Okefenokean, 1880
Eastman Times (Eastman), 1879-1887
Echols Echo (Statenville), 1916
Enterprise (Carnesville), 1890-1892
Enterprise-Record (Gibson), 1892
Excelsior News, 1879
Fannin County Gazette (Morganton), 1891
Fitzgerald Enterprise, 1897-1902
Fitzgerald Leader, 1897-1912
Fort Gaines Sentinel, 1895-1902
Fort Valley Mirror, 1880-1881
Franklin County Register (Carnesville), 1878-1888
Georgia Farmer (Statesboro), 1892
Gibson Record, 1892-1933
Hale’s Weekly (Conyers), 1892-1895
Hamilton Journal, 1881-1906
Hancock Weekly Journal (Sparta), 1869-1870
Haralson Banner (Buchanan), 1884-1891
Headlight (Gray), 1889
High Shoals Messenger, 1897
Industrial Banner (DuPont), 1892
Irwin County News (Ocilla), 1893-1897
Jasper News, 1885
Jesup Sentinel, 1890-1907
Jones County Headlight (Gray), 1888-1889
Jones County News (Gray), 1895-1906
Knoxville Journal, 1888-1889
Leader Fort Valley, 1897
Lincoln Home Journal, 1898-1902
Lincolnton News, 1882-1890
Lithonia New Era, 1890
Lumpkin Independent, 1891-1902
Monroe Advertiser (Forsyth), 1888-1902
Morgan Monitor, 1897-1899
Morganton News, 1891
Murray County Gazette (Spring Place), 1879-1879
Murray News (Spring Place), 1897-1909
North Georgia Times (Spring Place), 1881-1891
Ocilla Dispatch, 1899-1901
Oconee Enterprise (Watkinsville), 1887-1915
Oglethorpe Echo (Lexington), 1878-1898
Pickens County Herald (Jasper), 1888-1899
Pickens County Progress (Jasper), 1899-1926
Pike County Journal (Zebulon), 1888-1902
People’s Advocate (Crawfordville), 1893
Record (Wrightsville), 1897-1900
Rockdale Banner (Conyers), 1888-1900
Schley County Enterprise (Ellaville), 1886-1888
Schley County News (Ellaville), 1889-1900
Solid South (Conyers), 1885-1892
South Georgian (McVille), 1879-1880
Southeast Georgian (Kingsland), 1895-1932
Southern Record (Toccoa), 1897-1898
Southern Times & Planter (Sparta), 1874
Sparta Times and Planter (Sparta), 1874
Spring Place Jimplecute, 1891-1903
Statesboro Eagle, 1889-1891
Statesboro Star, 1894-1899
Stillmore Times, 1898
Sylvania Telephone, 1879-1907
Times-Journal (Eastman), 1899
Times & Planter (Sparta), 1874
Toccoa News, 1880-1889
Toccoa News and Piedmont Industrial Journal, 1889-1893
Toccoa News, 1893-1896
Toccoa Times, 1894-1896
Toccoa Times-News, 1896-1897
Toccoa Record, 1901-1902
Tribune (Buchanan), 1898-1901
Watkinsville Advance, 1880-1881
Wayne County News (Jesup), 1897-1910
Wiregrass Cracker (Homerville), 1883
Wrightsville Recorder, 1880-1902
Young Harris News, 1900
About the R. J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation
The purpose of the R. J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation Trust is to promote genealogical research and study in Georgia in conjunction with the Georgia Genealogical Society and the Georgia Archives. Grants are made to individuals and organizations to defray the expense of publishing (print or digital) records of a genealogical nature from public and private sources. The primary emphasis is on preserving and making available to the public genealogical data concerning citizens of Georgia who were residents prior to 1851. Visit the R. J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation at taylorfoundation.org
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