The News and Herald (Winnsboro, S.C.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,175 issues from 1877 to 1900, published in Winnsboro, South Carolina, digitised for Chronicling America.
In the History of South Carolina, David Duncan Wallace applauded the Winnsboro News and Herald (1849-1982) as a newspaper “in which the people take a personal pride.” During its long run, the News and Herald served as witness to a number of major developments in Fairfield County: the completion of the Columbia and Charlotte Railroad in 1850; the establishment of the Blythewood Female Institute (also known as the Blythewood Female Seminary) in 1860 and Fairfield Institute in 1869; and the rise of quarrying, brickmaking, and textile manufacturing in the late 19th century. The Winnsboro News and Herald began as two newspapers, the Fairfield Herald and the Winnsboro Tri-weekly News. Edward H. Britton established the weekly Fairfield Herald in 1849; he later launched two companion newspapers, the Winnsboro Daily Register and triweekly Winnsboro Register. The Fairfield Herald suspended publication during the Civil War, but it was resumed in June 1866.
The Winnsboro Tri-Weekly News first appeared in February 1865 as the Winnsboro Daily News. A month later, it resurfaced as the weekly Fairfield Courier, of which only one issue was ever published. In October 1876, the Winnsboro Tri-Weekly News was merged with the Fairfield Herald and renamed the weekly Winnsboro News and Herald. Somewhat confusingly, a tri-weekly newspaper, also called the Winnsboro News and Herald was established shortly thereafter (it was later continued as the Fairfield News and Herald). In 1901, James Frank…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Winnsboro, South Carolina, 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