Pocahontas Times (Huntersville, W. Va.) 1883-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,865 issues from 1884 to 1927, published in Huntersville, West Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Pocahontas Times began publication in May of 1883 in Huntersville, the then-seat of Pocahontas County, West Virginia. When the county’s seat moved to Marlinton in 1891, the Times followed it, setting up shop there in 1892. With this move came new ownership, the paper having gone through a number of publishers and editors during its first decade of existence. Yet it would be these new owners, the Price family, including the Reverend William T. Price and his sons James, Norman, Andrew, and Calvin, as well as their descendants, who would run the paper in various capacities for more than a century. Calvin in particular would turn the paper into a local institution, buying out the rest of his family in 1906 to become sole owner, publisher, and primary editor until his death in 1957, though Andrew still continued to contribute columns from time to time.
During approximately the first 30 years of the Price family’s tenure, the Times was published weekly, on Thursdays or Fridays, running between 4-8 pages long. In the early 1890s, a Times subscription cost $1.50 per year, though this decreased to $1.00 by 1896. While 1894 issues declared that the Times was “devoted especially to the interests of the farming class,” its slogans would vary considerably through at least the 1920s. Sometimes it adopted West Virginia’s state motto Montani Semper Liberi (“Mountaineers are always free”) while at other times it proclaimed Nullius Addictus Jurare in Verba Magistri, a phrase adopted by…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Huntersville, West Virginia, 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