Orleans County Monitor (Barton, Vt.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,646 issues from 1872 to 1922, published in Barton, Vermont, digitised for Chronicling America.
The weekly Orleans County Monitor was published in Barton, Vermont, for just over 80 years, primarily under the direction of two men, George H. Blake and Wallace H. Gilpin.In 1871, Barton abruptly lost the Orleans Independent Standard, the weekly newspaper it had enthusiastically welcomed in 1866. The publisher of the county’s other major weekly, the Newport Express, purchased the Standard’s subscription list and merged the two papers, leaving the southern part of Orleans County without a local paper. In response, printer Ellery H. Webster started the Orleans County Monitor in 1872 with support from Barton’s business community. A Civil War veteran, Webster named the paper after the Union’s iron-clad warship, the USS Monitor.
After running the Monitor by himself for a year, Webster added George H. Blake as a partner to take over the editorial duties. When Webster left the newspaper profession in 1876, Blake purchased the paper. Blake’s son-in-law, William L. Jacobs, joined him in the business after graduating from Montpelier Seminary in 1894 and took over after Blake’s death in 1898. Jacobs moved to California in 1904 and sold the Monitor to Wallace H. Gilpin, a printer who had started working at the paper when he was a student at Barton Academy.
In 1909 Gilpin formed a partnership with Franz A. Hunt that soon dominated newspaper publishing in Orleans County. In 1919, Gilpin and Hunt started a second weekly, the Newport News. In 1920, they acquired the Express and…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Barton, Vermont, 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