The Fulton County News (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
899 issues from 1899 to 1918, published in Mcconnellsburg, Pennsylvania, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Fulton County News is the sole survivor today of the half-dozen 19th-century newspapers in McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania. Independent politically in its early years, the News did not editorialize, but focused instead on providing a wide variety of interesting reading material, like a combination newspaper/magazine. The Fulton County News was eight pages long, when most rural Pennsylvania weeklies were only four.
Fulton County, on the Pennsylvania-Maryland border, was formed in 1850 and named for Pennsylvania native Robert Fulton, builder of the first commercially successful steamboat. McConnellsburg, the county seat, is in a valley of the Appalachians and was laid out in 1786 by Daniel McConnell, one of original warrantees of the land where the town stands. By the end of the 19th century its economic base consisted of county government and some small industries.
McConnellsburg was constrained by its geography, but it became an important stopping place for early travelers. The town was on the turnpike that connected eastern and western Pennsylvania and also was the terminus of the road from Washington, D.C. The 1793 Fulton House hotel hosted Presidents John Adams, Zachary Taylor, William Henry Harrison, and James Buchanan. The “Packers’ Path” used by early traders in the town became part of the 1913 transcontinental Lincoln Highway. Stagecoaches descending the steep hills into McConnellsburg were often held upright by men pulling on ropes, inspiring local farmer George…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Mcconnellsburg, Pennsylvania, 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