The Union Daily Times (Union, S.C.) 1918-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,334 issues from 1918 to 1927, published in Union, South Carolina, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Union Daily Times has captured the news of Union County, located in the upstate region of South Carolina, in times of prosperity and decline. Like its neighbors Spartanburg and York counties, textile mills have significantly factored in Union County’s history. In the waning years of the 19th century, the mills offered struggling farmers an alternative to sharecropping and provided the impetus for building communities and improving infrastructure. In the 20th century, the loss of the mills dealt the local economy a major blow from which it has yet to fully recover.
The Union Daily Times began as the weekly Unionville Journal, which was established on May 31, 1851, by Robert A. McKnight. In 1859, McKnight and his business partner, William Henry Wallace, changed the name to the Unionville Times. In January 1871, Robert M. Stokes, the former editor of the Laurensville Herald, re-launched the Unionville Times as the Weekly Union Times, “devoted to agriculture, horticulture, domestic economy, polite literature, politics, and the current news of the day.” On January 19, 1871, the Anderson (South Carolina) Intelligencer declared the Times “one of the neatest journals in the state,” adding, “the people of Union will sadly neglect their duty and interests unless they fully sustain Mr. Stokes in his efforts to furnish them with an acceptable local organ.” Josiah Crudup shortened the name of the paper to the Union Times on September 7, 1894.
In 1906, the Reverend Lewis Malone…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Union, South Carolina, 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