Georgia Adds 58 Historical Newspaper Titles in Fall 2020 Update

The Digital Library of Georgia just announced that 58 titles have been added during the spring and summer of 2020 to the Georgia Historic Newspapers website. The complete announcement can be found HERE.

The announcement also discusses where the funding for each of the added titles came from. 

Here is a list of the titles (and funding organization):
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Titles funded by the Burke County Genealogical and Historical Society

• True Citizen (Waynesboro), 1902-1926

Titles funded by the Forsyth County Government

• Forsyth County News (Cumming), 1959-1995

Titles funded by the Georgia Public Library Service

• Adairsville Banner, 1898
• Adairsville Ledger, 1890
• Bartow Tribune (Cartersville), 1911-1917
• Bartow tribune. The Cartersville news, 1917-1923
• Cartersville American, 1882-1886
• Cartersville Courant, 1885-1886
• Cartersville Courant-American, 1888-1889
• Cartersville Express, 1880-1889
• Cartersville News, 1904-1917
• Cartersville Sentinel, 1874
• Coffee County Gazette (Pearson), 1880-1881
• Coffee County Progress (Douglas), 1913-1925
• Courant-American (Cartersville), 1887-1888
• Courant-American (Cartersville), 1889-1901
• Dade County Gazette (Rising Fawn), 1879-1882
• Dade County News (Trenton), 1888-1889
• Dade County Sentinel (Trenton), 1901-1908
• Dade County Times (Trenton), 1908
• Dade County Weekly Times (Rising Fawn), 1884-1888
• Dade County Weekly Times (Trenton), 1889
• Douglas Breeze, 1895-1902
• Douglas Enterprise, 1905-1926
• Douglas Weekly Breeze, 1903-1905
• Emerson News, 1897
• Free Press (Cartersville), 1878-1883
• Henry County Weekly (Hampton), 1879-1891
• Henry County Weekly (McDonough), 1892-1923
• Henry County Weekly and Henry County Times (McDonough), 1891
• Kingston Times, 1910
• Moultrie Observer, 1899
• News (Cartersville), 1901
• News and Courant (Cartersville), 1901-1904
• Pearson Tribune, 1917-1922
• State of Dade News (Trenton), 1891-1901
• Voice of the People (Cartersville), 1892
• Weekly Cartersville Express, 1866
• Willacoochee Record, 1912
• Willacoochee Sun, 1907-1908
• Willacoochee Times, 1921, 1930

Titles funded by the Houston County Public Library System

• Houston Daily Journal (Perry), 2006-2007
• Houston Home Journal (Perry), 1993-1994
• Houston Home Journal (Perry), 1999-2005
• Houston Home Journal (Perry), 2007-2008
• Houston Times-Journal (Perry), 1994-1999

Titles funded by the Knox Foundation with support from the Friends of the Augusta Library

• Augusta Daily Herald, 1908-1914
• Augusta Herald, 1890-1908
• Augusta Herald, 1914-1924

Titles funded by the Middle Georgia State University Library through a grant from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council (GHRAC)

• Cochran Journal, 1910-1913

Titles funded by the National Digital Newspaper Program

• Americus Times Recorder, 1901-1919

Titles funded by the R.J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation and the Gwinnett Historical Society

• Gwinnett Herald (Lawrenceville), 1885-1897
• Lawrenceville News, 1894, 1897
• News-Herald (Lawrenceville), 1899-1924
• Weekly Gwinnett Atlas (Lawrenceville), 1917
• Weekly Gwinnett Herald (Lawrenceville), 1871-1885

Titles Funded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Savannah

• Bulletin (Monroe), 1961-1962
• Southern Cross (Savannah), 1963-2000

In my opinion, the state of Georgia has done an outstanding job - not only consolidating the previous disparate sites, but also adding new titles - not an easy task.

For all of the Georgia Historic Newspapers website titles as well as links to other free Georgia historical newspaper websites, please visit Georgia Online Historical Newspapers Summary

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