The Frankfort Roundabout (Frankfort, Ky.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
841 issues from 1882 to 1908, published in Frankfort, Kentucky, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Frankfort Roundabout, which developed from Claude Buckley’s Weekly Roundabout, was one of many newspapers covering the city of Frankfort, Kentucky’s state capital, and the surrounding area during the early 20th century. Frankfort Roundabout editor George A. Lewis began his career as co-editor of the Weekly Roundabout, which he purchased from Buckley in 1882. Lewis changed the publication’s name in order to associate it more closely with the city of Frankfort. Like its predecessor, the Frankfort Roundabout remained a community- oriented publication and continued to print the familiar masthead, “Devoted to Local and Society News.”
As it claimed, the Roundabout appropriately focused on serving the citizens of Franklin County. In addition to the agricultural reports, personal news, and serial literature typically published by turn-of-the-century newspapers, the Frankfort Roundabout included information about the daily occurrences in Frankfort and surrounding locales. “Officer James Brown caught a catfish on a trotline, near the Hermitage Distillery, on Thursday, which weighed 95 pounds. It is a ‘regular darling’,” one June 1905 article reads. The paper also chronicled important events in Frankfort’s history. Reports on Frankfort’s Centennial Celebration of 1886 received front-page coverage for months preceding the October event. When the cornerstone of the new capital building was laid in June 1906, the paper’s content was dominated by the event.
The Roundabout also…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Frankfort, Kentucky, 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