The County Record (Kingstree, 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.
1,411 issues from 1897 to 1927, published in Kingstree, South Carolina, digitised for Chronicling America.
The weekly Kingstree County Record (1885-1975) delivered the news on local, national, and international events to the people of Kingstree, located in Williamsburg County, South Carolina, for nearly a century. Significant events covered by the County Record included: the cultivation of tobacco as a cash crop in the late 19th century; the establishment of the Kingstree Building and Loan Association in 1905; and the devastation of the county’s cotton crop by boll weevils, starting in 1920.
Richard Columbus Logan launched the County Record on February 17, 1885, declaring, “It is our desire and aim to make the County Record a reflex of current events in every portion of the county.” Aside from its inaugural issue, no issues published before 1897 are known to have survived. According to the Geo. P. Rowell and Co.’s American Newspaper Directory, the County Record claimed a circulation of 750 in 1889. Sometime around 1895, Logan sold the newspaper to Edwin Girardeau Chandler. From there, it rapidly changed hands several times, before being finally sold to Charles Wesley Wolfe in 1898. Under his management, the County Record expanded in size from eight to thirteen pages, survived competition from a rival newspaper, the Kingstree Weekly Mail, and doubled its circulation. Following Wolfe’s death in 1915, Waiteman Francis Tolley acquired the County Record and, with the help of his associates Lindsay Harper Cromer, Jr., Edwin Christopher Epps, and Richard K. Wallace, kept it going well…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Kingstree, 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