Lewistown Gazette (Lewistown, Pa.)
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512 issues from 1849 to 1867, published in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, digitised for Chronicling America.
Mifflin County, in central Pennsylvania, was created in 1789 out of Cumberland and Northumberland Counties. The name honors Thomas Mifflin, Pennsylvania’s first governor. The county seat originally was Mifflintown, but the honor moved to Lewistown under the influence of legislator William Lewis. His name was bestowed in 1795 on the newly incorporated borough, previously called by its Shawnee name, Ohesson. Mifflin County was a bucolic farming region but became a crossroads of transportation of cargo and people in the 1800s, with new roads and, especially, the Pennsylvania Canal. The Juniata River canal branch opened at Lewistown in 1829, and was active until railroads took over by 1850.
The roots of the Lewistown Gazette date to 1811 when James Dickson and William Power Elliott started the Juniata Gazette using equipment imported from Carlisle, Cumberland County. Several publishers later, in 1834, Elliott repurchased the newspaper, renamed it the Lewistown Gazette, and Mifflin and Juniata Advertiser, kept it briefly, and re-sold it to F. C. Merklein, publisher of the Juniata Journal. Under Merklein, the name evolved into the Mifflin County Gazette, and Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Journal. Finally, on November 18, 1843, new owner William Ross conferred the mercifully short name, Lewistown Gazette, which prevailed until the newspaper ceased publication in 1944.Ross sold the Gazette in 1846 to George Frysinger, of Hanover, York County, and Frysinger’s Civil War-era articles and…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Lewistown, 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