The Chesterfield Advertiser (Chesterfield C.H., 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.
606 issues from 1892 to 1927, published in Chesterfield, South Carolina, digitised for Chronicling America.
The weekly Chesterfield Advertiser delivered the news to the residents of Chesterfield, the seat of Chesterfield County, South Carolina, for over a hundred years. In 1884, the year of the Advertiser‘s founding, Chesterfield County was poor and rural. Its economy depended wholly on small-scale farming and lumbering. As the railroads extended their reach, however, towns like Jefferson, Ruby, and Pageland (incorporated in 1901, 1903, and 1908, respectively) began to sprout up. The town of McBee became famous for its peaches; Pageland declared itself the “watermelon capital of the world.”
The Chesterfield Advertiser began as the Cheraw-Bennettsville Sun and Monitor, which was the product of a merger between the Cheraw Carolina Sun and the Bennettsville Marlboro Monitor. In December 1884, Ethelred Jasper Kennedy and Archibald Hursey purchased the Sun and Monitor and changed its name to the Chesterfield Advertiser. By 1887, Daniel M. Barentine and Charles Lucius Laudie had assumed the roles of editor and publisher. The Reverend Ferris Middleton Cannon, minister to the Bay Springs Baptist Church in Chesterfield,served as editor for several years sometime thereafter. For much of the 20th century, Lam Boykin Britton, his brother Chevis Steven Britton, and Chevis Britton’s wife, Lurline Virginia Britton, carried on the responsibilities of running the newspaper.
Several of the men who edited and published the Chesterfield Advertiser were community leaders. Ethelred Kennedy served as…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Chesterfield, 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