Mineral Point Tribune (Mineral Point, Wis.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,813 issues from 1869 to 1922, published in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, digitised for Chronicling America.
The town of Mineral Point, Wisconsin, was founded in 1827 by lead miners who came to the area from Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri. Their simple shelters – some of which were mere holes in the hillside – earned Wisconsin the nickname “Badger State.” During the 1830s, many experienced miners immigrated to Mineral Point from Cornwall, England, and brought with them an architectural style that shaped the look of the town. With the influx of Cornish miners as well as immigrants from Germany, Ireland, and Wales, Mineral Point grew in importance as the territory approached statehood: the city hosted the inauguration of the first governor of the Wisconsin Territory in 1836, established a rail line linking the region to Chicago and points south in 1857, and served as the seat of Iowa County until 1861.
When the Wisconsin Tribune was first published in Mineral Point in 1847, large numbers of lead miners had already left the Southwestern region of the territory to work in copper and iron mines in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and elsewhere. As lead extraction declined, many of those who remained in the area turned to mining another mineral: zinc. Others took up agriculture, particularly wheat and, beginning in the 1880s, dairy farming.
The Wisconsin Tribune and its succeeding titles (Mineral Point Tribune, 1854-58; Mineral Point Weekly Tribune, 1859-68; and Mineral Point Tribune, 1869-1938) and the Iowa County Democrat captured the history of what was once the most…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Mineral Point, Wisconsin, 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