Wood County Reporter (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.)
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3,099 issues from 1858 to 1922, published in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, digitised for Chronicling America.
The first Europeans arrived in Wood County, Wisconsin, in the late 1820s. Many of its early residents were French-Canadians, although other nationalities, ethnicities, and American born-settlers were present too. Lumber and wood pulp mills were the primary industry, as well as dairy, livestock, and farming, particularly of cranberries. The region was predominantly Democrat prior to the establishment of the Republican Party in 1854, although settlers who had been Whigs and later Republicans arrived and gradually tipped the political balance.
The Wood County Reporter had the distinction of being the first newspaper published in modern day Wisconsin Rapids, the seat of centrally located Wood County. Native American tribes had called the area Ah-dahwah-gam, meaning Two-sided Rapids, because of the large boulder that divided the river in that location. Wisconsin Rapids represents the consolidation of two early settlements, one on the west side of the Wisconsin river known as Centralia and the other on east side known as Grand Rapids. In 1900, the two communities merged and were simply known as Grand Rapids. (However, due to mail frequently being wrongly delivered to Grand Rapids, Michigan, the name of the town was changed to Wisconsin Rapids in 1920.)
The Wood County Reporter was established in Grand Rapids on November 28, 1857. At first, the paper was published on Wednesday but switched to Saturday from 1859 until 1863. Thereafter it was published on Thursday, a schedule…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, 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.
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- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
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- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress