Pocahontas Star Herald (Pocahontas, Randolph County, Ark.; Pocahontas, AR) 1907-Current
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571 issues from 1908 to 1927, published in Pocahontas, Arkansas, digitised for Chronicling America.
Pocahontas is the Randolph County seat in far northeastern Arkansas. The town began as a port on the Black River and grew into a major Confederate center during the Civil War. Union forces occupied the city several times, and in 1863, they burned part of the town including the newspaper office. Pocahontas recovered from the war, and from the late 1800s into the 1920s experienced a golden age. This period saw the transition from steamboats to railroads, which revolutionized trade. Pocahontas factories produced buttons, bricks, processed cotton, wagon wheels, and other wooden parts. Collecting mussels and pearling were also popular industries for a time. Pocahontas continues to be a major commercial center, over the years hosting an egg dehydrating plant, shoe factory, and aircraft parts manufacturing plant. The area around the city comprises a large agricultural industry as well. The Pocahontas Star Herald newspaper grew out of this golden age in Pocahontas and continues to serve the city to this day.
In 1904, Leander Frank Blankenship, Sr. and Earle William Hodges started the Pocahontas Star. That same year, Hodges was appointed as state printing clerk in Little Rock and sold his interest in the Star to Blankenship. Hodges continued to work for the state in various positions and was eventually the youngest Secretary of State elected in Arkansas. Vasco Giles Hinton published another paper in Pocahontas, the News-Herald (1903-1907) (which was previously titled the Randolph…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Pocahontas, Arkansas, 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