Wadsworth Semi-Weekly Dispatch (Wadsworth, Nev.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
529 issues from 1899 to 1904, published in Wadsworth, Nevada, digitised for Chronicling America.
The site of Wadsworth, Nevada was a resting spot on the overland trail at a bend in the Truckee River. When the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad reached the spot in 1868, the railroad decided to make it a freight station for its eastward construction. President of the railroad, Leland Sanford, named the new town Wadsworth after the Civil War General James S. Wadsworth, killed in the Battle of The Wilderness in 1864, as a favor to General Irvin McDonell under whom Wadsworth had served. The town prospered as the major railroad depot east of Reno, the headquarters of the railroad’s Truckee Division with machine shops, roundhouse, and a major freight station. Although officially in Washoe county, in 1871, the town made an unsuccessful attempt to be annexed by the neighboring and sparsely populated Churchill County in hopes of being designated as the county seat. Thirteen years later, most of the town was destroyed by a fire that started in the freight station. Eventually Wadsworth was re-built on the other west side of the river.
Unlike other railroad towns and mining camps, where newspapers sprang up as quickly as saloons, Wadsworth did have its own newspaper until 1892 when attorney Nicholas A. Hummel owner of the newly incorporated Dispatch Publishing Company started publishing The Wadsworth Dispatch under the editorship of W.H.A. Pike. It started as weekly four-page, four column paper with an annual subscription of $3 a year but doubled its size a month later.…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Wadsworth, Nevada, 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