Virginia Gazette (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
785 issues from 1897 to 1913, published in Williamsburg, Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.
Located in southeastern Virginia half-way across the Peninsula between the James and York Rivers, Williamsburg served as Virginia’s second capital from 1699 to 1780. Once the capital moved to Richmond in 1781, however, Williamsburg languished. Only with the construction of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad in the early 1880s did significant change come, greatly enhancing the ability of local farmers to reach new markets. Railroad agents eagerly promoted the area’s climate and agricultural potential, recruiting farmers, many of Scandinavian descent, and in turn fostering the small businesses that served them. Late-nineteenth-century Williamsburg was small but bustling. Its incorporation as a city in 1884 and the growth of the College of William and Mary also contributed to its economic development. From 1880 to 1910, the population of Williamsburg nearly doubled–to 2,714.
Newspaper publishing began in Williamsburg in 1736 with the first Virginia Gazette, printed by William Parks. Since then, at least eleven papers with that title were published in Williamsburg. Among them was the Virginia Gazette published by W. C. Johnston from 1893 to the early 1920s, which was not related to its predecessors. An Ohio native and an alumnus of the College of William and Mary, Johnston served as clerk of the Williamsburg city council, member of the board of registrars and the Williamsburg Business Association, and postmaster. As editor of the Virginia Gazette, a Democratic weekly, Johnston…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Williamsburg, 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