The Pickens Sentinel (Pickens, S.C.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
737 issues from 1873 to 1894, published in Pickens, South Carolina, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Pickens Sentinel (1871-present) has served as the “newspaper of conscience” for the residents of rural Pickens County, located in the Upstate region of South Carolina, for nearly 150 years. The economy of Pickens County has historically been driven largely by agriculture, and the Pickens Sentinel has advocated for farmers’ interests in a number of ways, whether by supporting the establishment of the Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina (now known as Clemson University) in 1889 or by covering the activities of the National Grange, Southern Farmers’ Alliance, and other organizations that sought to represent farmers.
The present-day Pickens Sentinel traces its origins to two 19th-century newspapers, the Pickens Sentinel and Easley Messenger. David Franklin Bradley and John R. Holcombe established the weekly Pickens Sentinel to general acclaim in July 1871. On August 3, 1871, the Anderson Intelligencer, published in nearby Anderson County, praised the Sentinel thusly: “Its editorials are pungent, lively and well-written, and manifest an earnest disposition to battle strongly for the interests of the state and section.” The Sentinel quickly established a reputation for dogged reliability. On March 6, 1873, when the publishers could not get access to newspaper stock, they printed the issue on notebook paper, observing that “a half loaf is better than no bread.”
Ambrose W. Hudgens and John Robinson Hagood established the weekly Easley Messenger in 1883. They chose…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Pickens, South Carolina, 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