The Hartford Herald (Hartford, Ky.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,473 issues from 1875 to 1922, published in Hartford, Kentucky, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Hartford Herald, a weekly newspaper published each Wednesday, served Hartford, Kentucky, for over 50 years. Located in the heart of Kentucky’s Western Coal Field Region, Hartford, the seat of Ohio County, was settled around 1790. Eighty-five years later, John P. Barrett established the Hartford Herald as the city’s first Democratic newspaper.
The Herald offered an eclectic array of material, including election coverage, reports on agriculture, news items from Hartford and larger Kentucky cities such as Lexington and Louisville, church news, and correspondence from surrounding towns. Particularly newsworthy was its coverage of important events in Hartford’s history, including the establishment of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad’s Madisonville, Hartford & Eastern line in 1909. Citizens were anxious for the track’s completion; the front page of the June 2, 1909, issue reads: “The railroad’s locomotive is now steaming at the verge of our city limits!”
One important contributor to the paper was Harrison D. Taylor. A self-proclaimed pioneer and a native of Hartford, Taylor wrote a series of historical sketches that was first published by an Owensboro paper in 1857, and re-published by the Hartford Herald 20 years later. Taylor explored historical topics of interest to the citizens of Ohio County. In addition to discussing the county’s important leaders, physicians, and lawyers, his writings covered prehistory, early pioneer families, and life in the “olden” days. In one…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Hartford, Kentucky, 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