The Magnolia Gazette (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
791 issues from 1872 to 1902, published in Magnolia, Mississippi, digitised for Chronicling America.
Located in southwestern Mississippi, Pike County was created in 1815. The county seat moved west from the declining community of Holmesville on the Bogue Chitto River to Magnolia, a newer railroad boom town, in June 1873. Seven months previously, a Confederate veteran, Captain James D. Burke established the four-page Magnolia Gazette. Known as quiet and agreeable, Burke had edited a newspaper in Brookhaven, Mississippi, before moving south to Magnolia. For reasons that are unclear, the Gazette was not published between August 1874 and September 1879; it resumed publication on October 24, 1879. For the remainder of the century the Gazette reflected the prevailing attitudes of conservative white Democrats in the state.
Upon Burke’s sudden death in January 1885, his friend, John S. Lamkin, purchased the Gazette and ran it for two years before returning to his law practice. The last editor/proprietor during the 19th century was D.M. Huff, a strong temperance advocate. Beginning in 1894, Huff published the paper twice weekly on Wednesday and Saturday, a practice that continued after he left the Gazette in 1900. The newspaper returned to a weekly format in 1920. The Magnolia Gazette is still published in 2017 as a weekly; it is Pike County’s oldest continuously operated business.
In its early years, the Magnolia Gazette was an excellent source of state and local news. Beginning in October 1873, the newspaper was the official journal of Pike County, a role it continued for the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Magnolia, Mississippi, 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