The Lake County Star (Chase, Mich.) 1873-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
689 issues from 1873 to 1889, published in Baldwin, Michigan, digitised for Chronicling America.
Throughout the 19th century, lumber served as the basis for the local economy of Lake County, Michigan. Later, agriculture and seasonal tourism, particularly summer resort communities and trout fishing in the county’s many streams, became important economic activities. The Idlewild Resort Company was a seasonal community of particular note. Founded in 1912, it was one of the few lakefront resorts which welcomed African Americans prior to the 1960s. With approximately 2,000 cottages, Idlewild was one of the largest African-American resorts of its day.
The Lake County Star was the first paper printed in the county. It began publication on May 1, 1873, in the town of Chase, which had been settled in 1867 and was then the county seat. Charles Kelly Radcliffe, under the corporate name of Radcliffe & Co., founded the newspaper.
In its first issue, the Lake County Star declared itself to be Republican, “no independent or neutral humbug for us.” However, the Star also saw itself as a community resource. In the same first issue, the editor stated that the paper’s political orientation “will not prevent us from doing full justice to those of a different political opinion than ourselves.” The paper downplayed its political association even more when it wrote, “In the absence of political campaign issues, however, we do not propose to continually harp on political topics; but remain of the opinion that people of both parties would rather read something else as soon as the election is…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Baldwin, Michigan, 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