Georgia Historic Newspapers Update Fall 2022

This year, the Digital Library of Georgia released several new grant-funded newspaper titles to the Georgia Historic Newspapers website. Included below is a list of the newly available titles.

Titles digitized in partnership with the Atlanta History Center and Kennesaw State University

Southern Voice (Atlanta), 1988-1994

Titles funded by the Farris Cadle

Bethesda News (Savannah), 1947-1949

Jewish Alliance (Savannah), 1945-1949

Labor Herald (Savannah), 1909

Reason (Savannah), 1908

Savannah Times, 1881

Savannah Weekly News, 1912

Southern Agriculturist (Savannah), 1872

Weekly News (Savannah), 1881

Titles funded by the Forsyth County Government with an ARPA Digital Inclusion grant

The Forsyth County News (Cumming), 2004-2012

Titles made available as part of the Georgia Newspaper Project’s Born Digital Project

Advance (Vidalia), 2021

Banks County News (Homer), 2008-2020

Barrow Journal (Winder), 2008-2015

Barrow News-Journal (Winder), 2016-2021

Braselton News, 2007-2020

Commerce News, 2007-2016

Herald-Gazette (Barnesville), 2021-2022

Jackson Herald (Jefferson), 2008-2021

Lee County Ledger, (Leesburg) 2001-2022

Madison County Journal (Hull), 2009-2021

Millen News, 2009-2021

Pickens County Progress (Jasper), 2003-2021

Pike County Journal and Reporter (Zebulon), 2021

True Citizen (Waynesboro), 2009-2022

Titles funded by the Georgia Public Library Service with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services

Advertiser (Cleveland), 1881

Brunswick News, 1924-1932

Camilla Enterprise, 1904-1926

Cleveland Advertiser, 1880-1881

Cleveland Courier, 1896-1967

Covington News, 1909-1936

Covington Star, 1885-1902

Courier-Sentinel (Ellijay) 1898-1899

Ellijay Courier, 1876-1892

Ellijay Courier, 1906-1915

Ellijay Times, 1906-1915

Enterprise (Covington), 1905-1909

Fort Valley Leader,  1908

Georgia Enterprise (Covington), 1889-1905

Pelham Journal, 1908-1924

Times-Courier (Ellijay) 1916-1924

Titles funded by the Georgia Public Library Service with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services in partnership with the Roddenbery Memorial Library

Cairo Messenger, 1904-1950

Titles funded by the Georgia Public Library Service with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services in partnership with Peach Public Libraries

Leader-Tribune (Fort Valley), 1925-2012

Leader-Tribune and Peachland Journal, 1920-1924

Fort Valley Leader, 1908

Titles digitized in partnership with Julia Grimes and the Library of Virginia

Hexagon (Elberton), 1974-1975

Titles digitized in partnership with the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Countryman (Turnwold), 1862-1865

Titles funded by Lucy Hilton Maddox Memorial Library Trust

Early County News, 1942-1953

Titles funded by the National Digital Newspaper Program with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Atlanta Age, 1900

Augusta Union, 1900

Colored American (Augusta), 1865-1866

Columbus Chronicle, 1900

Gazette and Land Bulletin (Waycross), 1900

Macon Sentinel, 1900

Savannah Weekly Echo, 1883-1884

Voice of Missions (Atlanta), 1900

Weekly Defiance (Atlanta), 1882-1883

Titles donated by Edward Smith

Star Daily News (Milledgeville), 1917

Titles funded by Spalding County SPLOST via the Flint River Regional Library System

Griffin Daily News, 1888-1889

Griffin Daily News and Sun, 1889-1924

Griffin Daily News, 1924-1930, 1944-1949. 1966-1977

Griffin Weekly News and Sun, 1896-1918

Titles funded by the R.J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation

Adel News, 1900-1904

American Union (West Bowersville), 1885-1896

Ashburn Advance, 1897-1900

Advocate-Democrat (Crawfordville), 1893-1906

Banner-Messenger (Buchanan), 1891-1900

Baptist Reporter (Guyton), 1888

Blackshear News, 1878-1882

Blackshear Times, 1889-1901

Blairsville Free Press, 1892

Blue Ridge Post,  1893, 1900, 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

Columbia Sentinel (Harlem), 1885-1923

Conyers Examiner, 1878-1883

Conyers Weekly, 1895-1901

Conyers Weekly-Banner, 1901-1902

Correspondent (Roberta), 1892-1903

Crawfordville Advocate, 1895-1896

Crawford County Correspondent (Roberta), 1892

Crawford County Herald (Knoxville), 1890-1892

Crawfordville Democrat, 1881-1893

Daily Sun (Columbus), 1865-1873

Democrat (Crawfordville), 1877-1881

Demorest Times, 1891-1894

Dodge County Journal (Eastman), 1887

Dispatch (Ocilla), 1899

DuPont Okefenokean, 1880

Eastman Times, 1879-1887

Echols Echo, 1916

Enterprise-Record (Gibson), 1892

Excelsior News, 1879

Fannin County Gazette (Mineral Bluff), 1891

Fitzgerald Leader, 1897-1912

Fort Valley Mirror, 1880-1881

Franklin County Register (Carnesville), 1878-1888

Fort Gaines Sentinel, 1897-1898

Georgia Farmer (Statesboro), 1892

Hale’s Weekly (Conyers), 1892-1895

Hamilton Journal, 1881-1885

Hamilton Journal, 1887

Hamilton Journal, Published Semi-Weekly, 1885-1887

Hancock Weekly Journal (Sparta), 1869-1870

Hamilton Journal, 1906-1920

Headlight (Gray), 1889

High Shoals Messenger, 1897

Industrial Banner (DuPont), 1892

Irwin County News (Sycamore), 1893-1897

Jasper News, 1885

Jones County Headlight (Gray), 1888-1889

Journal (Hamilton), 1887-1889

Knoxville Journal, 1888-1889

Leader Fort Valley, 1891

Lincolnton News, 1882-1890

Lithonia New Era, 1890

Lumpkin Independent, 1883-1902

Monroe Advertiser (Forsyth), 1888-1910

Morgan Monitor, 1897-1899

Morganton News, 1891

Murray County Gazette (Spring Place), 1879

Murray News (Spring Place), 1897-1909

North Georgia Times (Spring Place), 1881-1891

Ocilla Dispatch, 1899-1901

Oconee Enterprise (Watkinsville), 1887-1916

Oglethorpe Echo (Crawford), 1878-1898

People’s Advocate (Crawfordville), 1893

Pickens County Herald (Jasper), 1888-1899

Record (Wrightsville), 1897-1900

Rockdale Banner (Conyers), 1888-1900

Savannah Daily Evening Recorder, 1878-1881

Solid South (Conyers), 1883-1892

South Georgian (Macville), 1879-1880

Southern Record, 1897-1898

Southern Times and Planter (Sparta), 1874

Sparta Times and Planter, 1874

Statesboro Eagle, 1889-1891

Statesboro Star, 1894, 1899

Stillmore Times, 1898

Times-Journal (Eastman), 1889-1899

Toccoa News, 1880-1889

Toccoa News, 1893-1896

Toccoa News and Piedmont Industrial Journal, 1889-1893

Toccoa Record, 1901-1902

Toccoa Times, 1894-1896

Toccoa Times-News, 1896-1897

Tribune (Buchanan), 1898-1901

Watkinsville Advance, 1880-1881

Wayne County News (Jesup), 1897-1910

Weekly Banner (Conyers), 1900-1901

Wiregrass Cracker, 1883

Wrightsville Recorder, 1880-1902

Young Harris News, 1900

Titles digitized in partnership with the Tifton-Tift County Public Library

Tifton Gazette, 1917-1918

–Donnie Summerlin and Mandy Mastrovita

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R.J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation-Funded Magruder Newspapers Now Available

Miners Recorder and Spy In The West. (Auraria, Lumpkin County, Georgia) March 29, 1834, Page 1

by Donnie Summerlin and Mandy Mastrovita

As part of a $17,980 grant from the R. J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation, the Digital Library of Georgia has digitized over 77,000 pages of Georgia newspaper titles in partnership with the Atlanta History Center

The newly-released collection includes rare nineteenth-century titles from north Georgia and previously unavailable titles from larger cities across the state. 

The project creates full-text searchable versions of the newspapers. It presents them online for free in its Georgia Historic Newspapers database

Users will be able to search the database for geographic, corporate, family, and personal names.

142 titles have been digitized from the following Georgia cities:

Alpharetta, Athens, Atlanta, Augusta, Auraria, Brunswick, Calhoun, Canton, Cassville, Carrollton, Columbus, Cumming, Dahlonega, Dalton, Douglasville, Marietta, Milledgeville, Gainesville, Griffin, Harlem, LaGrange, Lawrenceville, Lumpkin, Macon, Newnan, Norcross, Rome, Savannah, Thomasville, Valdosta, and Winterville.

Titles of interest include:

Miners Recorder and Spy in the WestA newspaper published in the north Georgia mining town of Auraria during the Georgia Gold Rush in the 1830s.

The Progressive Era – An African American newspaper published in Athens, Georgia, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The Soldier’s Friend – A Christian newspaper published out of Atlanta for Confederate soldiers during the Civil War.

The Kennesaw Route Gazette – A newspaper published by the Western & Atlantic Railroad Company for its train passengers.

 

The full list of titles digitized as part of the grant includes:

Alpharetta Free Press, 1893

Athens Chronicle, 1885-1888

Athens Clipper, 1901-1904

Athens Evening Chronicle, 1889

Athens Evening News, 1895

Athens Weekly Chronicle, 1878-1882

Athens Weekly Chronicle, 1889

Atlanta Advance, 1891

Atlanta Commercial, 1895-1896

Atlanta Daily Examiner, 1854-1855

Atlanta Daily Post, 1879-1880

Atlanta Evening Capitol, 1885-1887

Atlanta Evening Herald, 1893

Atlanta Post-Appeal, 1882

Atlanta Weekly Examiner, 1855-1856

Atlanta Weekly Post, 1880-1881

Atlanta Universalist, 1881-1882

Atlanta Whig, 1872

Banner and Baptist (Atlanta), 1862

Baptist Banner (Atlanta), 1862-1864

Baptist Banner (Cumming), 1880

Baptist Sun (Gainesville), 1889

Brunswick Advocate, 1861

Brunswick Appeal, 1879

Carroll County Times (Carrollton), 1880-1885, 1895

Cassville Gazette, 1835

Cherokee Advance (Canton), 1880, 1898

Cherokee Advocate (Marietta), 1848

Cherokee Agriculturist and Patron of Husbandry (Dalton), 1875

Cherokee Georgian (Canton), 1875-1876

Cherokee Intelligencer (Canton), 1833-1834

Christian Index (Atlanta), 1879-1881

Christian Index (Atlanta), 1892-1897

Christian Index and Southern Baptist (Atlanta), 1881-1892

Columbia Advertiser (Harlem), 1881-1882

Columbia Sentinel (Harlem), 1886-1887

Columbus Daily Times, 1878-1885

Dahlonega Watchman, 1846

Daily Argus (Dalton), 1910-1911

Daily Chronicle & Sentinel (Augusta), 1850

Daily Dispatch (Savannah), 1894

Daily Evening News (Macon), 1865

Daily Journal and Messenger (Macon), 1865

Daily New Era (Atlanta), 1865-1868

Daily Press (Atlanta), 1894

Daily Sun (Columbus), 1865-1873

Daily Tribune (Rome), 1880

Dalton Argus, 1882-1911

Dalton Enterprise, 1875

Evening Call (Griffin), 1899

Evening Herald (Atlanta), 1882

Evening Post (Brunswick), 1890

Evening Sentinel (Augusta), 1878-1879

Gainesville Eagle, 1879-1914

Georgia Banner & Sentinel (Newnan), 1861

Georgia Constitutionalist (Augusta), 1845

Georgia Courier (Augusta), 1833-1835

Georgia Grange (Atlanta), 1873-1877

Georgia Literary and Temperance Crusader (Atlanta), 1861

Georgia Major (Atlanta), 1883

Georgia Pioneer, and Retrenchment Banner (Cassville), 1835-1839

Georgia Record (Atlanta), 1899-1900

Georgia Statesman (Milledgeville), 1827

Graphic (LaGrange), 1889-1900

Great Kennesaw Route Gazette (Atlanta), 1886

Hustler of Rome (Rome), 1894-1898

Ice Berg (Winterville), 1897

Independent Blade (Newnan), 1861

Jewish Tribune (Atlanta), 1896

Kaleidoscope (Atlanta), 1885

Kennesaw Gazette (Atlanta), 1886-1890

Kennesaw Route Gazette (Atlanta), 1875

Kind Words for the Sunday School Children (Macon), 1877

Living Issues (Atlanta), 1893-1894

Looking Glass (Atlanta), 1894-1897

Landmark Banner & Cherokee Baptist (Atlanta), 1859-1861

Lawrenceville News, 1861

Lumpkin Palladium, 1860

Macon Daily Telegraph, 1860

Macon News, 1898

Marietta Advocate, 1861-1863

Marietta Helicon, 1847

Marietta Semi-Weekly Advocate, 1861

Miners Recorder and Spy in the West (Auraria), 1834-1837

Monochord (Macon), 1886

Morning Call (Griffin), 1898-1899

Motive (Atlanta), 1896

Mountain Signal (Dahlonega), 1861

Mystic Owls (Atlanta), 1880

National Republican (Augusta), 1868

New South (Douglasville), 1891-1906

New Western Railway Guide (Atlanta), 1887

New Working World (Atlanta), 1886

Norcross Advance, 1873-1874

North Georgia Times (Dalton), 1860-1863

North Georgian (Gainesville), 1878-1883

People’s Friend (Rome), 1873

Pilgrim’s Banner (Valdosta), 1895-1897

Progressive Era (Athens), 1899

Republican Herald (Columbus), 1836

Rome Courier and Southern Statesman, 1859

Rome Hustler-Commercial, 1898-1899

Rome Tribune, 1893-1897

Rome Tribune, 1900

Rural Southerner & Plantation (Atlanta), 1875

Savannah Daily Evening Recorder, 1879-1881

Savannah Daily Times, 1884-1886

Savannah Gazette, 1817

Savannah Morning News, 1879-1883

Savannah Weekly News, 1894-1898

Semi-Weekly True Flag (Rome), 1861

Soldier’s Friend (Atlanta), 1863

Southern Alliance Farmer (Atlanta), 1889-1892

Southern Confederacy (Atlanta), 1861

Southern Farm (Atlanta), 1893

Southern Recorder (Milledgeville), 1846-1856

Southern Statesman (Calhoun), 1855

Southern Whig (Athens), 1834-1839

Southerner and Commercial Advertiser (Rome), 1861

Standard of Union (Milledgeville), 1836-1840

State Press (Macon), 1857-1859

Sun and Columbus Weekly Enquirer, 1874

Sunday Gazette (Atlanta), 1878-1880

Sunday Phonograph (Atlanta), 1879-1881

Times (Savannah), 1880-1881

Tribune-of-Rome, 1890-1891

Weekly Atlanta Intelligencer, 1867-1870

Weekly Augusta Chronicle, 1893-1898

Weekly Banner (Athens), 1895

Weekly Chronicle & Constitutionalist (Augusta), 1881-1883

Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel (Augusta), 1843-1851

Weekly Constitution (Atlanta), 1870-1874

Weekly Constitutionalist (Augusta), 1862-1869

Weekly Georgia Constitutionalist and Republic (Augusta), 1852-1855

Weekly Republic (Augusta), 1849-1851

Weekly Southerner (Rome), 1861

Weekly Star (Douglasville), 1885-1887

Weekly Tribune (Rome), 1893-1895

Western Georgian (Rome), 1838

Western Herald (Auraria), 1834

Wire-grass Reporter (Thomasville), 1861

Woman’s Work (Athens), 1888-1910

 

Paul Crater, vice president of collections and research at the Atlanta History Center, emphasizes the impact that the digitization of  these newspapers will have on researchers of Georgia history:

“Composed of over 4,600 newspapers, the collection was assembled by William Grisham, a North Georgia resident who served as clerk of court for Cherokee county and postmaster for his community. 

The collection was donated to the Atlanta History Center in 2001 by Nell Galt Magruder, a descendant of Mr. Grisham.

The collection includes essential regional publications from Atlanta, Milledgeville, Marietta, Rome, and Augusta. 

It also has rare editions of the Cherokee Intelligencer, Miners Recorder and Spy in the West, and The Southern Whig

The collection is a valuable source for those interested in pre-Civil War Georgia, the Cherokee Removal, the North Georgia gold rush, the Civil War, Southern agriculture, and genealogy.”

 

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 http://taylorfoundation.org/  

 

About the Atlanta History Center

The Atlanta History Center through its collections, facilities, programs, exhibitions, and publications preserves and interprets historical subjects pertaining to Atlanta and its environs and presents subjects of interest to Atlanta’s diverse audiences. Visit the Atlanta History Center at atlantahistorycenter.com

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