Georgia Adds 152 Digitized Titles to Georgia Historical Newspapers

Over the winter, the Digital Library of Georgia released several new grants, funded by several federal and state digitization programs. There are about 150 additional free titles now can be searched for free.The collections, funding sources, and titles are listed below for each subcollection:
 

Titles funded by a National Digital Newspaper Program Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities:

• Morning News (Savannah), 1887-1899

Titles funded by HomePLACE:

• Orthodox Democrat (Barnesville), 1889
• Barrow Times (Winder), 1919-1921
• Weekly Journal (Homer), 1889-1890
• Barnesville Weekly Gazette, 1869
• Daily Gazette (Barnesville), 1884
• Weekly Gazette (Barnesville), 1868

Titles funded by a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR):

• Wolverine Observer (Morris Brown College, Atlanta), 1936-2001
• Panther (Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta), 1944-1969

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

• American Patriot (Savannah), 1812
• American Republic (Macon), 1859
• American Standard (Albany), 1855
• American Union (Griffin), 1851-1860
• American Whig (Griffin), 1848
• Argus (Savannah), 1828-1829
• Backwoodsman and Upson Yeoman(Thomaston), 1834
• Bee (Forsyth), 1849
• Christian Index (Washington), 1833-1866
• Columbian Museum & Savannah Advertiser, 1796-1817
• Columbian Museum and Savannah Commercial Advertiser, 1817
• Columbian Museum and Savannah Daily Gazette, 1817-1819
• Columbus Sentinel and Herald, 1838-1841
• Covington Herald, 1835
• Cuthbert Reporter, 1856-1860
• Daily Citizen (Macon), 1857
• Daily Georgia Citizen (Macon), 1859
• Daily Sun (Columbus), 1856-1861
• Daily Telegraph (Savannah), 1840
• Darien Gazette, 1818-1828
• Dollar News (Savannah), 1855
• Empire State (Griffin), 1856-1859
• Enterprise (Thomasville), 1865
• Evening Mirror (Savannah), 1851
• Federal Republican Advocate, and Commercial Advertiser (Savannah), 1807-1808
• Friend and Monitor (Washington), 1815
• A Friend of the Family (Savannah), 1849-1851
• Georgia & Carolina Gazette (Petersburg), 1805-1806
• Georgia Banner (Newnan), 1856
• Georgia Christian Repertory (Macon), 1831-1832
• Georgia Citizen Advertiser (Macon), 1860
• Georgia Citizen (Macon), 1850-1860
• Georgia Citizen (Macon), 1859
• Georgia Clipper (Warrenton), 1860
• Georgia Courier (Lumpkin), 1853
• Georgia Gazette (Savannah), 1763-1770
• Georgia Gazette (Savannah), 1798-1802
• Georgia Jeffersonian (Griffin), 1853-1854
• Georgia Journal and Independent Federal Register (Savannah), 1793-1794
• Georgia Journal and Messenger (Macon), 1847-1861
• Georgia Literary and Temperance Crusader (Atlanta), 1860-1861
• Georgia Messenger (Ft. Hawkins), 1823-1847
• Georgia Pioneer, and Retrenchment Banner (Cassville),  1840
• Georgia Pioneer (Cassville), 1841
• Georgia Republican & State Intelligencer(Savannah), 1802-1805
• Georgia Republican (Savannah), 1806-1807
• Georgia Temperance Crusader (Penfield), 1858-1859
• Greensboro Weekly Gazette, 1858
• Harris County Enterprise (Hamilton), 1860-1864
• The Hickory Nut and Upson Vigil(Thomaston), 1833-1834
• Independent Blade (Newnan), 1859-1860
• Independent Press (Washington), 1840
• Independent South (Griffin), 1858
• The McIntosh County herald, and Darien commercial register, 1839-1840
• The messenger (Macon), 1823
• The missionary (Mt. Zion), 1821-1825
• The monitor (Washington), 1802-1815
• The Morning Chronicle (Savannah), 1818
• Muscogee Democrat, and Mercantile Advertiser (Columbus), 1847-1848
• Muscogee Democrat (Columbus), 1849
• News & Planters’ Gazette (Washington), 1840-1844
• The News (Washington), 1816-1820
• The News (Washington), 1833-1840
• Organ (Hamilton), 1854-1856
• Palladium (Newnan), 1835-1836
• Patriot and Commercial Advertiser(Savannah), 1806-1807
• Planters’ Weekly (Greensboro), 1860-1861
• Public Intelligencer (Savannah), 1807-1809
• Republican and Savannah Evening Ledger, 1807-1816
• Republican Sentinel (Rome), 1844
• Royal Georgia Gazette (Savannah), 1779-1782
• Rural Cabinet (Warrenton), 1828-1830
• Savannah Courier, 1852
• Savannah Daily Georgian, 1857-1858
• Savannah Daily Journal and Courier, 1855
• Savannah Evening Journal, 1852-1853
• Savannah Journal, 1852
• Savannah Mercury, 1829
• Savannah Museum, 1821-1822
• Semi-Weekly True Flag (Rome), 1860
• Sentinel (Louisville), 1820
• Southern Baptist Messenger (Covington), 1860-1862
• Southern Literary Companion (Newnan), 1860-1865
• Southern Enterprise (Thomasville), 1860-1861
• Southern Enterprise (Thomasville), 1865-1866
• Southern Miscellany (Madison), 1842-1846
• Southern Patriot (Savannah), 1806
• Southern Sentinel (Columbus), 1850-1852
• Southerner (Rome), 1850
• Standard (Cassville), 1852-1853
• Standard of Union and Free Trade Advocate (Sparta), 1834
• Star of the South (Elberton), 1860
• State Press (Macon), 1859
• Telegraph (Darien), 1835
• Temperance Banner (Penfield), 1849-1855
• Temperance Crusader (Penfield), 1856-1857
• Times & Sentinel Tri-Weekly (Columbus), 1855-1858
• Times (Savannah), 1823
• Tri-Weekly Columbus Times, 1851
• Tri-Weekly Times and Sentinel (Columbus), 1853
• Upson Pilot (Thomaston), 1858-1862
• Washington News and Miscellaneous Advertiser, 1832-1833
• Washington News, 1822-1831
• Weekly Georgia Citizen (Macon), 1860
• Weekly Sun (Columbus), 1859-1863
• Weekly Times & Sentinel (Columbus), 1853-1858
• Wilkes Republican (Washington), 1857-1858
• Wire-grass Reporter (Thomasville), 1857-1858

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The DLG has also converted several newspaper archives to the GHN website, including:

• Carroll Free Press (Carrollton), 1883-1922
• Cassville Standard, 1857-1860
• Cedartown Advertiser, 1879-1884
• Cedartown Express, 1877-1879
• Cedartown Record, 1874-1877
• Cedartown Standard, 1900-1922
• Cherokee Advance (Canton), 1880-1922
• Clayton Tribune, 1899-1924
• Cleveland Progress, 1892-1896
• Dahlonega Nugget, 1903-1928
• Daily Telegraph and Messenger (Macon), 1873
• Douglas County Sentinel, 1917-1922
• Gainesville News, 1902-1922
• Georgia Cracker, 1897-1902
• Georgia Telegraph (Macon), 1832-1835
• Georgia Telegraph (Macon), 1844-1858
• Georgia Weekly Telegraph and Georgia Journal & Messenger, 1869-1880
• Georgia Weekly Telegraph, Journal and Messenger, 1880-1882
• LaGrange Herald, 1843-1844
• LaGrange Reporter, 1857-1914
• Macon Daily Telegraph, 1908
• Macon Georgia Telegraph, 1836-1844
• Macon Telegraph, 1894-1904
• Macon Telegraph, 1826-1832
• Macon Telegraph and Messenger, 1873-1882
• Newnan Herald, 1868-1885
• North Georgia Citizen (Dalton), 1868-1921
• Rome Tri-Weekly Courier, 1860-1880
• Rome Weekly Courier, 1860-1878
• Standard (Cassville), 1852-1853
• Telegraph and Messenger (Macon), 1871-1873
• Twice-a-Week Telegraph (Macon), 1907
• Weekly Georgia Telegraph (Macon), 1858-1869
• Weekly Telegraph (Macon), 1885-1894
• Weekly Telegraph and Messenger (Macon), 1884-1885

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