The Redwood Gazette (Redwood Falls, Minn.)
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3,031 issues from 1873 to 1940, published in Redwood Falls, Minnesota, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Redwood Gazette was first issued as a four-page weekly on May 1, 1873 by William B. Herriott and J. S. Beal, editors and publishers. It was an eight-column folio with patent pages inside. The Gazette was preceded by an earlier title, Redwood Falls Mail, established by V. C. Seward in 1869; the name was changed by Herriott and Beal upon purchase in 1873. The Redwood Gazette served as the official paper for Redwood Falls, the county seat, and the surrounding communities in Redwood County, Minnesota, located in the southwestern area of the state along the Minnesota River. This region had been Dakota homeland but saw many changes as Dakota were moved to reservations, including the nearby Lower Sioux Indian Reservation, and later were forcibly removed from Minnesota following the United States-Dakota War of 1862. In the 1870s, Redwood Falls and the surrounding area were affected both by growth following railroad development and by grasshopper plagues that devastated farmlands. By October 15, 1874, William Herriott had become the sole editor and publisher of the Redwood Gazette. In 1880 Herriott sold the Gazette to James Aiken and W. R. Rigby. Rigby left in 1881, and in 1892, Aiken sold the newspaper to Julius August Schmahl and Herbert V. Ruter. The pair expanded the Gazette from a four-page patent inside paper to an eight-page “all-home print” paper primarily focused on city and county news; by 1900 the paper had a circulation of 1,600.
Ruter retired around December 1893,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Redwood Falls, Minnesota, 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