Clinch Valley News (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019
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3,792 issues from 1886 to 1963, published in Jeffersonville, Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.
Established in 1869 in the small town of Jeffersonville (now Tazewell) in southwest Virginia, the four-page weekly was first edited by Dr. Henry F. Peery and James C. Nutty. Peery brought rough-and-tumble experience to the job. Twenty-two years earlier, he had printed the Jeffersonville Democrat and later the Southwestern Advocate. Both papers had staunchly supported the Democratic Party as did the new Clinch Valley News. After Peery’s death in 1872, a series of editors retained much of the same political flavor. Together, the succession of the above three titles would serve as one of Virginia’s oldest continuously published weekly newspapers.
The News ably reflected the community’s economic and social fabric. Tazewell, located between the Appalachian and Allegheny Mountains, was surrounded by small farms primarily devoted to cattle and grain and the center of increasingly vibrant lumber and coal mining industries. Despite its small size, Tazewell had a remarkable variety of businesses, churches, and large homes. In 1885, work began on a new opera house.
The Clinch Valley News showed the same steady growth. In 1872, the paper reached an estimated 400 subscribers, a good number considering that the population of Tazewell would not reach 550 until the early 1900s. By 1900, circulation had nearly reached 1,000 and by 1908 approximately 1,500. By then, too, the News was attracting readers in nearby Pocahontas, Graham, Marion, Lynchburg, Abbs Valley, Cedar Bluff, Shawver…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Jeffersonville, Virginia, 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