{"id":8482,"date":"2023-02-28T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=8482"},"modified":"2024-11-15T14:46:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T19:46:49","slug":"r-j-taylor-jr-foundation-funded-under-documented-newspapers-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=8482","title":{"rendered":"R.J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation-Funded Underdocumented Newspapers Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Spring Place Jimplecute, November 27, 1902<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Donnie Summerlin and Mandy Mastrovita<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

As part of a $27,103.50 grant from the R. J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation<\/a>, the Digital Library of Georgia has digitized over 109,000 pages of Georgia newspaper titles.<\/p>\n

The newly-released collection includes Georgia newspapers of the late 19th
\ncentury from under documented Georgia counties from microfilm held by the Georgia Newspaper Project.<\/p>\n

The project creates full-text searchable versions of the newspapers. It presents them online for free in its\u00a0Georgia Historic Newspapers database<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Users will be able to search the database for geographic, corporate, family, and personal names.<\/p>\n

120 titles have been digitized from the following Georgia cities:<\/p>\n

Abbeville, Adel, Arlington, Ashburn, Blackshear, Blairsville, Blue Ridge, Bogart, Buchanan, Carnesville, Conyers, Cordele, Crawfordville, Decatur, Demorest, Dupont, Eastman, Ellaville, Excelsior, Fitzgerald, Forsyth, Fort Gaines, Fort Valley, Gibson, Gray, Guyton, Hamilton, Harlem, High Shoals, Homerville, Jasper, Jesup, Kingsland, Knoxville, Leary, Lexington, Lincolnton, Lithonia, Lumpkin, Macville, Morgan, Morganton, Ocilla, Roberta, Sparta, Spring Place, Statenville, Statesboro, Stillmore, Sycamore, Sylvania, Toccoa, Watkinsville, West Bowersville, Wrightsville, Young Harris, Zebulon<\/p>\n

The following counties are now represented in the Georgia Historic Newspapers database for the first time:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0B<\/span>en Hill, Bulloch, Calhoun, Camden, Clay, Clinch, Crawford, Crisp, DeKalb, Dodge, Echols, Effingham, Emanuel, Fannin, Glascock, Irwin, Johnson, Jones, Lincoln, Murray, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Pickens, Pierce, Schley, Screven, Taliaferro, Towns, Turner, Union, Wilcox<\/span><\/p>\n

Titles of interest include:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Advocate-Democrat (Crawfordville)<\/a> – A Populist newspaper published in the least-populated county in Georgia (Taliaferro County).<\/p>\n

Haralson Banner (Buchanan)<\/a> – Haralson County\u2019s first newspaper.<\/p>\n

Spring Place Jimplecute<\/a> – A paper published in Murray County with a unique name of unknown origin.<\/p>\n

Statesboro Eagle<\/a> – The official organ of Bulloch County in the early 1890s.<\/p>\n

Toccoa News<\/a> – A successor to the county\u2019s first newspaper, the Toccoa News began publication in 1879 and continues to cover the news of Stephens County today as the Toccoa Record.<\/p>\n

The full list of titles digitized as part of the grant includes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Abbeville Chronicle<\/span><\/i>, 1898-1901<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Adel News<\/span><\/i>, 1900-1904<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Advertiser<\/span><\/i> (Fort Gaines), 1887-1890<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Advocate-Democrat<\/span><\/i> (Crawfordville), 1893-1906<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

American Union<\/span><\/i> (West Bowersville), 1885-1896<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Arlington Advance<\/span><\/i>, 1879-1882<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Ashburn Advance<\/span><\/i>, 1897-1900<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Banner-Messenger<\/span><\/i> (Buchanan), 1891-1900<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Baptist Reporter<\/span><\/i> (Guyton), 1888<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Blackshear News<\/span><\/i>, 1878-1882<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Blackshear Times<\/span><\/i>, 1889-1901<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Blairsville Free Press<\/span><\/i>, 1892<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Blairsville Herald<\/span><\/i>, 1892-1902<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Blue Ridge Post<\/span><\/i>,\u00a0 1893, 1900, 1913<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Bogart News<\/span><\/i>, 1897<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Bulloch County Banner<\/span><\/i> (Statesboro), 1893<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Bulloch Herald<\/span><\/i> (Statesboro), 1899-1901<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Bulloch Times<\/span><\/i> (Statesboro), 1893-1898<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Calhoun County Courier<\/span><\/i> (Leary), 1882-1902<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Carnesville Advance<\/span><\/i>, 1899-1917<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Carnesville Tribune<\/span><\/i>, 1890-1894<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Clay County Reformer<\/span><\/i> (Fort Gaines), 1894<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Clinch County News <\/span><\/i>(Homer), 1898-1911<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Columbia Sentinel<\/span><\/i> (Harlem), 1885-1923<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Conyers Examiner<\/span><\/i>, 1878-1883<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Conyers Weekly<\/span><\/i>, 1883-1888<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Conyers Weekly, <\/span><\/i>1895-1901<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Conyers Weekly-Banner, <\/span><\/i>1901-1902<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Cordele Sentinel,<\/span><\/i> 1899-1902<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Correspondent<\/span><\/i> (Roberta), 1892-1903<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Crawfordville Advocate<\/span><\/i>, 1895-1896<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Crawford County Correspondent<\/span><\/i> (Roberta), 1892<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Crawford County Herald<\/span><\/i> (Knoxville), 1890-1892<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Crawfordville Democrat<\/span><\/i>, 1881-1893<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

DeKalb News<\/span><\/i>, 1884<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Democrat<\/span><\/i> (Crawfordville), 1877-1881<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Demorest Times<\/span><\/i>, 1891-1894<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Dodge County Journal<\/span><\/i> (Eastman), 1887<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Dispatch<\/span><\/i> (Ocilla), 1899<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

DuPont Okefenokean<\/span><\/i>, 1880<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Eastman Times<\/span><\/i>, 1879-1887<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Echols Echo<\/span><\/i>, 1916<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Enterprise<\/span><\/i> (Carnesville) 1890-1892<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Enterprise-Record<\/span><\/i> (Gibson), 1892<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Excelsior News<\/span><\/i>, 1879<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Fannin County Gazette <\/span><\/i>(Mineral Bluff), 1891<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Fitzgerald Enterprise, 1898-1902<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Fitzgerald Leader, 1897-1912<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Fort Valley Mirror<\/span><\/i>, 1880-1881<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Franklin County Register<\/span><\/i> (Carnesville), 1878-1888<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Fort Gaines Sentinel<\/span><\/i>, 1895-1902<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Georgia Farmer<\/span><\/i> (Statesboro), 1892<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Gibson Record<\/span><\/i>, 1892-1933<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Hale\u2019s Weekly<\/span><\/i> (Conyers), 1892-1895<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Hamilton Journal<\/span><\/i>, 1881-1885<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Hamilton Journal<\/span><\/i>, 1887<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Hamilton Journal<\/span><\/i>, 1889-1920<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Hamilton Journal, Published Semi-Weekly<\/span><\/i>, 1885-1887<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Hancock Weekly Journal<\/span><\/i> (Sparta), 1869-1870<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Hamilton Journal<\/span><\/i>, 1906-1920<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Haralson Banner<\/span><\/i> (Buchanan), 1884-1891<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Headlight<\/span><\/i> (Gray), 1889<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

High Shoals Messenger,<\/span><\/i> 1897<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Industrial Banner<\/span><\/i> (DuPont), 1892<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Irwin County News<\/span><\/i> (Sycamore), 1893-1897<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Jasper News<\/span><\/i>, 1885<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Jesup Sentinel, 1880-1907<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Jones County Headlight<\/span><\/i> (Gray), 1888-1889<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Jones County News <\/span><\/i>(Gray), 1895-1906<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Journal <\/span><\/i>(Hamilton), 1887-1889<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Knoxville Journal<\/span><\/i>, 1888-1889<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Leader Fort Valley<\/span><\/i>, 1891<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Lincoln Home Journal, 1898-1902<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Lincolnton News<\/span><\/i>, 1882-1890<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Lithonia New Era<\/span><\/i>, 1890<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Lumpkin Independent<\/span><\/i>, 1883-1902<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Monroe Advertiser<\/span><\/i> (Forsyth), 1888-1910<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Morgan Monitor<\/span><\/i>, 1897-1899<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Morganton News<\/span><\/i>, 1891<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Murray County Gazette<\/span><\/i> (Spring Place), 1879<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Murray News<\/span><\/i> (Spring Place), 1897-1909<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

North Georgia Times<\/span><\/i> (Spring Place), 1881-1891<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Ocilla Dispatch<\/span><\/i>, 1899-1901<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Oconee Enterprise <\/span><\/i>(Watkinsville), 1887-1916<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Oglethorpe Echo<\/span><\/i> (Crawford), 1878-1903<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

People\u2019s Advocate<\/span><\/i> (Crawfordville), 1893<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Pickens County Herald <\/span><\/i>(Jasper), 1888-1899<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Pickens County Progress<\/span><\/i> (Jasper), 1899-1926<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Piedmont Republican<\/span><\/i>, 1891<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Pike County Journal <\/span><\/i>(Zebulon), 1888-1902<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Record<\/span><\/i> (Wrightsville), 1897-1900<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Rockdale Banner<\/span><\/i> (Conyers), 1888-1900<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Schley County Enterprise<\/span><\/i> (Ellaville), 1886-1888<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Schley County News <\/span><\/i>(Ellaville) 1889-1900<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Solid South<\/span><\/i> (Conyers), 1883-1892<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

South Georgian<\/span><\/i> (Macville), 1879-1880<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Southeast Georgian <\/span><\/i>(Kingsland), 1895-1932<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Southern Record<\/span><\/i>, 1897-1898<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Southern Times and Planter<\/span><\/i> (Sparta), 1874<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Sparta Times and Planter<\/span><\/i>, 1874<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Spring Place Jimplecute<\/span><\/i>, 1891-1903<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Statesboro Eagle<\/span><\/i>, 1889-1891<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Statesboro Star,<\/span><\/i> 1894, 1899<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Stillmore Times<\/span><\/i>, 1898<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Sylvania Telephone<\/span><\/i>, 1879-1907<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Times-Journal<\/span><\/i> (Eastman), 1889-1899<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Toccoa News<\/span><\/i>, 1880-1889<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Toccoa News<\/span><\/i>, 1893-1896<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Toccoa News and Piedmont Industrial Journal<\/span><\/i>, 1889-1893<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Toccoa Record<\/span><\/i>, 1901-1902<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Toccoa Times<\/span><\/i>, 1894-1896<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Toccoa Times-News<\/span><\/i>, 1896-1897<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Tribune<\/span><\/i> (Buchanan), 1898-1901<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Watkinsville Advance<\/span><\/i>, 1880-1881<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Wayne County News<\/span><\/i> (Jesup), 1897-1910<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Weekly Banner<\/span><\/i> (Conyers), 1900-1901<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Wiregrass Cracker<\/span><\/i>, 1883<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Wrightsville Recorder<\/span><\/i>, 1880-1902<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Young Harris News<\/span><\/i>, 1900<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Digital Library of Georgia director Sheila McAlister notes, \u201cThe newest addition to our newspaper portal is a fascinating look at the growth of the newspaper industry in Georgia and communities\u2019 reactions to the New South’s hopes for industrialization. These local, rural papers provide us with a snapshot of life during this transitional period. We appreciate the continued support of the R.J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

About the R. J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a0http:\/\/taylorfoundation.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  By Donnie Summerlin and Mandy Mastrovita As part of a $27,103.50 grant from the R. J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation, the Digital Library of Georgia has digitized over 109,000 pages of Georgia newspaper titles. The newly-released collection includes Georgia newspapers of the late 19th century from under documented Georgia counties from microfilm held by the … <\/p>\n

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