Dickenson County Herald (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
532 issues from 1939 to 1951, published in Clintwood, Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.
Nicknamed “Virginia’s Baby” as the youngest county in Virginia, Dickenson County lies along the border of Kentucky deep in Virginia’s southwestern region. Formed in 1880 from parts of Russell, Wise, and Buchanan Counties, coal mining, farming, and timber have long reigned as the main industries in its mountainous terrain. Dickenson County is also the site of the Breaks Interstate Park, one of the longest and deepest canyons east of the Mississippi River, and was the birthplace and home of bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley. While remote and sparsely populated, Dickenson County supported numerous short-lived newspapers throughout the twentieth century. Among Dickenson’s many newspaper ventures were two separate iterations of the Dickenson County Herald, the first running from 1927-1930, and the second starting around 1937 and ending in the early 1950s.
Volume one, number one of the Dickenson County Herald, published every Thursday at Clintwood, Virginia under the management of Fred C. Raines, appeared on 10 February 1927. In its greeting to the public, the paper stated its editorial position: “The policy of this paper will be progressive, non-partisan, non-sectarian, and God-fearing. We will be independent, fearing nor favoring no man nor set of men.” The Herald covered events of Clintwood and nearby towns Clinchco, Mill Creek and Haysi, with school news, personal and social announcements, political updates, farm, forest and mining news, regional development information, birth…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Clintwood, Virginia, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
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- 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)
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- Library of Congress