The Pascagoula Democrat-Star (Pascagoula, Miss.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,489 issues from 1878 to 1920, published in Pascagoula, Mississippi, digitised for Chronicling America.
French, English, and Spanish colonists first settled the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the 1700s. By the mid-nineteenth century, the area was a popular destination for the wealthy from New Orleans and Mobile fleeing summertime heat and yellow fever epidemics. The continued development of tourism helped the coastal counties recover from the Civil War. After 1870, railroads brought affluent northerners to the area’s resorts. In Jackson, the easternmost county on the coast, first yellow pine lumbering, then shipbuilding, were major contributors to the economy in the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries.
Named after the local Native American people, Pascagoula, the Jackson County seat, had several Democratic papers, and most eventually merged into one title. On September 14, 1858, the first issue of the Handsboro Democrat announced the transfer of ownership of the Reformer (1854?–58) from Pizarro Kemp Mayers to Robert Fuller and John F. Slade. The new owners declared that the renamed newspaper would support states’ rights over centralized federal authority. By 1872, the dogmatic Mayers was in charge again and remained the driving force behind the newspaper when the Democrat and the Star of Pascagoula (1873–78) consolidated to form the Pascagoula Democrat-Star (1878–1920). Mayers chose burgeoning Pascagoula instead of declining Handsboro as his headquarters. The die-hard Confederate used his newspaper to criticize non-Democratic Party views, leading to two attempts on…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Pascagoula, 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