Charlevoix County Herald (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
872 issues from 1904 to 1921, published in East Jordan, Michigan, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Charlevoix County Herald was established in the town of East Jordan, south of Charlevoix, in the northwestern corner of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula in 1897. Located at the mouth of the Jordan River on Pine Lake, itself a southern arm of Lake Charlevoix, East Jordan–formally named with the opening of a post office in 1878–was then a community of around 1,200. Until the 1920s, the area remained heavily forested, and the town was a center of lumber production, primarily pine, hemlock, and hardwoods. It was also home to the East Jordan Iron Works, originally set up in 1883 to service the logging industry and still in operation to this day. East Jordan competed with Charlevoix and Boyne City to become the seat of Charlevoix County throughout the 1880s and 1890s, briefly serving in that role between 1884 and 1886. After the establishment in October 1901of a passenger service on the previously lumber-only East Jordan and Southern Railroad, many ambitious citizens came to see their town as being not merely in competition with its local rivals, but as a potential city. The Charlevoix County Herald printed a number of boosterist pamphlets throughout the first two decades of the 20th century in an attempt to spur growth. Typical was a series of articles lauding not only the agricultural, industrial, and tourist potential of Charlevoix County, but also the area’s growing importance to the state and the country as a whole, for example, in a 1906 piece entitled “East Jordan, Michigan:…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- East Jordan, Michigan, 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.
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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)
- Archive
- Library of Congress