Greene County Herald (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
976 issues from 1898 to 1922, published in Leakesville, Mississippi, digitised for Chronicling America.
In the Piney Woods of southeastern Mississippi, next to the Alabama border, sits Greene County. Established in 1811, Greene is one of the oldest counties in the state. The sandy soil of the sparsely populated region supported long leaf pine forests, but was not conducive to growing cotton, corn, and other crops in commercial quantities. At the turn of the 20th century, yeoman farming was supplemented by industrial jobs as the timber boom created a new source of income for many residents.
The Greene County Herald began publication on September 1, 1898 in the county seat, Leakesville, on the Chickasawhay River; the owners were George Guy Faulk and E. J. Adam. With the February 2, 1899 edition, James Faulk replaced his older brother George as editor of the weekly. When James became sole proprietor in late August the same year, he immediately moved the day of publication from Thursday to Friday, where it remained for the 24 years he ran the newspaper. Normally four pages during his tenure, for five years (1911-16) he expanded the length to eight pages. Faulk had a distinguished journalism career, serving as president of the Mississippi Press Association (1916), joining a long list of influential editors who held that office. At the time of the sale of the Herald in November 1922 to G. S. Harmon and Leopold Locke of Poplarville, Faulk was the state Vice President for Mississippi for the National Editorial Association. In 2020, the newspaper is still being published as a weekly.…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Leakesville, Mississippi, 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