Virginia Staats-Gazette (Richmond, Va.)
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1,228 issues from 1874 to 1880, published in Richmond, Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.
Richmond’s German population grew substantially from the mid to late nineteenth century, though most German immigrants to Virginia settled in parts north and west of Richmond. By 1850, Germans had created clearly definable neighborhoods in Virginia’s capital city, including Union Hill and Navy Hill. By 1860, there were over 1,600 German born people living in Richmond, and though this accounted for only 15 percent of all Germans living in Virginia, the city’s population was large enough to sustain more than one German language newspaper.
Established in April 1870 by the Virginia German Publishing Co., the Virginia Staats-Gazette was an Independent German language daily published in Richmond until 1904. The Staats-Gazette absorbed the earlier German newspaper Richmond Patriot, started in 1869 by a group of liberal Germans dissatisfied with Richmond’s established German language daily, Richmonder Anzeiger, a Democratic paper published by Burghardt Hassel from 1853 until 1915.
From the start, the Virginia Staats-Gazette grabbed attention, even in newspapers from as far away as Staunton, which is one hundred miles west of Richmond. The Staunton Spectator, reported on April 19, 1870 that the Staats-Gazette, “is a good sized paper of twenty-eight columns, neatly printed. The attention of German friends is respectfully called to this journal.” On August 26, 1870, the Staunton Vindicator wrote that the Staats-Gazette was “a very sprightly German daily,” and that Richmond was a…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Richmond, Virginia, United States
- Language
- German
- 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