The Bedford Gazette (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
746 issues from 1854 to 1870, published in Bedford, Pennsylvania, digitised for Chronicling America.
The indigenous peoples of southwestern Pennsylvania were in conflict with the French and British military and white settlers in 1750 when Scotsman John Ray opened a trading post on a branch of the Juniata River. The settlement was called Raystown until 1758 when the British built a stockade and named it Fort Bedford, for the fourth Duke of Bedford. Bedford County, named after the fort, was created on March 9, 1771, out of Cumberland County, with Bedford town serving as county seat. Bedford was an important frontier military post and the site of the Whiskey Rebellion. George Washington arrived there in 1794 to oversee some 13,000 troops sent to crush rebel farmers opposing the new whiskey tax, making his headquarters at the 1766 Espy House, still used today. Mineral, sulfur, and “sweet water” springs near Bedford were long used by the native peoples but developed in 1798 with the building of a stone inn. The Bedford Springs Hotel became the area’s major attraction as a therapeutic resort for politicians and wealthy tourists. President James Buchanan made it his summer White House. The hotel was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, closed in 1986, then extensively renovated and reopened in 2007.
Bedford County had no newspapers until 1805 when Charles McDowell arrived from Lancaster, where he had produced a newspaper called the Hive. Seeking his fortune and laden with a small printing press, McDowell turned up during a bitter election contest between…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress