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North Carolina Newspapers in the Library

Aberdeen Albemarle Asheboro Asheville Beaufort Burlington Charlotte Clinton Durham Edenton
Elizabeth City Fayetteville Goldsboro Greensboro Halifax High Point Hillsboro Lexington New Bern
Raleigh Rutherfordton Salisbury Statesville Tarboro Washington Wilmington Winston-Salem

* An asterisk indicates newspapers that are currently received.

Early American Newspapers: Includes full text to newspapers from NC (UNCG users or on-campus only); Dates: 1475-1889
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Albemarle: Aberdeen Herald; Dates: March 29, 1894
Location: Film 4035
Asheboro
: Asheboro miscellaneous papers; Dates: 1856 - 1879
Location: Film 4035; Courier-Tribune; Online Service
Asheville: Asheville Citizen-Times; Journal Finder, Online Service; Asheville Daily Gazette; June 19, 1900 - August, 1903
Location: Film 5116; Asheville Gazette-News; Dates: September, 1903 - February 19, 1916
Location: Film 5116; Asheville News; Title variations: Asheville News and Western Farmer; Asheville News and Mountain Farmer
Dates: January 9, 1851 - November 18, 1869 (scattered holdings)
Location: Film 688; Weekly Pioneer; Title variations: Asheville Pioneer
Dates: August 20, 1867 - December 19, 1874 (scattered holdings)
Location: Film 320
Beaufort: Beaufort Journal; Dates: 1857 - 1858
Location: Film 3146
Burlington: Burlington Times-News; Online Service; State Dispatch; Title variation: Twice a Week Dispatch
Dates: 1908 - 1913
Location: Film 3851
Charlotte: Catawba Journal; Dates: October 4, 1824 - April 29, 1828
Location: Film 968
See Later Title: Yadkin & Catawba Journal (May 20, 1828 -February 17, 1834); Salisbury; Charlotte Daily Observer; Dates: June 26, 1900 - March, 1916
Location: Film 2159
See Later Title: Charlotte Observer (April, 1916 - December, 1922); Charlotte Democrat; Title variations: Charlotte Home and Democrat; Southern Home
Dates: 1870 - October 7, 1897
Location: Film 2527; See Earlier Title: Western Democrat (January 9, 1872 - 1870)
See Related Title: Mecklenburg Times (1889-1897); Charlotte Journal; Dates: July 3, 1835 - December 17 1851
Location: Film 2530; * Charlotte Observer; Dates: April 13, 1916 - Present
Location: Film 2159; Recent issues in Current Periodicals Room; Daily Bulletin; Dates: May 17, 1859 - November 25, 1869
Location: Film 2531; Daily Carolina Observer; Title variations: Daily Charlotte Observer; Daily Observer
Dates: January 28, 1869 - November 28, 1869; March 31,1872; January 1873 - December 1886 (scattered holdings)
Location: Film 2159; Daily Carolina Times; Dates: June 28, 1864 - November 0, 1869
Location: Film 2529; Mecklenburg Jeffersonian; Dates: March 9, 1841 - April 11, 1849
Location: Film 972; Mecklenburg Times; Title variation: Times Democrat
Dates: 1889-1897
Location: Film 3857; See Related Title: Western Democrat (January 9, 1872 - 1870)
See Related Title: Charlotte Democrat (1870 - October 7, 1897); North Carolina Whig; Title variations: Charlotte Weekly The Whig
Dates: January 21, 1852 - March 24 1863
Location: Film 318; The Star of Zion; Dates: 1884 - 1970
Location: Film 5079; Tri-Weekly Bulletin; Dates: May 30; June 8, 1865; January 8; 11, 1881
Location: Film 2531; Western Democrat; Title variations: Charlotte Home and Democrat; Southern Home
Dates: January 28, 1853 - 1870
Location: Film 2527; See Later Title: Charlotte Democrat (1870 - October 7, 1897)
See Related Title: Mecklenburg Times (1889-1897); Yadkin & Catawba Journal; See: Catawba Journal (October 4, 1824 - April 29, 1828) Charlotte
See: Yadkin & Catawba Journal (May 20, 1828 - February 17, 1834) Salisbury
Clinton: Caucasian; Title variation: Weekly Caucasian
Dates: March 13, 1884 - December 27, 1894
Location: Film 970; See Later Title: Caucasian (January 3, 1895 - May 15, 1913) Raleigh
Durham: Durham Morning Herald; Title Variation: Morning Herald
Dates: 1986 - 1990
Location: Film 3617; See Later Title: The Herald-Sun; Durham Recorder; Dates: June 2, 1879 - August 2, 1888 (scattered holdings)
Location: Film 249; See Earlier Title: Hillsboro Recorder (March 1, 1820 - 1879); The Herald-Sun; Dates: 1991only
Location: Film 3617; See Earlier Title: Durham Morning Herald (1986 - 1990)
Online Service to the current issue of the paper.
Edenton: Edenton Gazette; Title variations: Edenton Gazette and Farmer's Palladium; Edenton Gazette and North Carolina Advertiser; Edenton Gazette and North Carolina General Advertiser
Dates: 1800 - 1801
Location: Film 248
Dates: February 26, 1806 - December 21, 1831
Location: Film 966; Edenton Intelligencer; Dates: 1788
Location: Film 248; Encyclopedian Instructor; Dates: 1800
Location: Film 248; Herald of Freedom; Dates: 1797 - 1799
Location: Film 257; See Earlier Title: State Gazette of North Carolina (1787 - 1796) New Bern; North Carolina Gazette; Dates: 1787
Location: Film 248; Post Angel; Dates: 1800
Location: Film 248
Elizabeth City: Democratic Pioneer; Dates: August 6, 1850 - November 29, 1859
Location: Film 3140; Elizabeth City Star; Title variation: Elizabeth City Star and North Carolina Eastern Intelligencer
Dates: 1822 - 1824; 1826 - 1833
Film 3142; North Carolinian; Dates: 1869 - 1903
Location: Film 3130; Old North State; Title variation: Old North State, and Nag's Head Advocate
Dates: May 25, 1831 - September 1854
Location: Film 3141
Fayetteville: Daily North Carolinian; Title variation: North Carolinian
Dates: May 24, 1859 - June 11, 1860; February 6, 1864 - November 29, 1864
Location: Film 2154; Eagle; Dates: August 12, 1868 - May 13, 1875 (scattered holdings)
Location: Film 316; Fayetteville Gazette; Title variations: North Carolina Chronicle and Fayetteville Gazette; North Carolina
Centinel and Fayetteville Gazette
Dates: 1789 - 1795
Location: Film 248; Fayetteville Index; Dates: 1909 - 1917
Location: Film 3853; *Fayetteville Observer; Title variations: Carolina Observer; Carolina Observer and Fayetteville Gazette; Fayetteville Observer-Times; Fayetteville Times
Dates: Current and Previous Months
Location: Current Periodicals Room; Journal Finder, Online Service; Edition: Daily
Dates: February 1, 1896 - December 31, 1900
Location: Film 2165; Edition: Weekly
Dates: February 8, 1883 - December 27, 1900
Location: Film 975; Edition: Semi-weekly
Dates: July 3, 1851 - March 1865
Location: Film 2168; Edition: Weekly
Dates: August 22, 1816 - March 6, 1865
Location: Film 975; News; Title variation: Fayetteville News
Dates: 1865 - 1868
Location: Film 2525; North Carolina Gazette; Dates: August 7, 1873 - August 23, 1893
Location: Film 2526; North Carolina Journal; Dates: May 17, 1826 - November 28, 1838
Location: Film 317; North Carolina Minerva and Fayetteville Advertiser; Dates: March 31, 1796 - April 1799 (scattered holdings)
Location: Film 319; See Later Title: North Carolina Minerva (1799 - March 23, 1821) Raleigh; North Carolinian (weekly); Dates: 1839 - 1861
Location: Film 2166
Goldsboro: Carolina Messenger; Title variations: Goldsboro Messenger
Dates: October 22, 1869 - June 13, 1887
Location: Film 2857; See Related Title: Weekly Transcript and Messenger (January 25, 1878 - June 27, 1889) Wilmington; Eastern Carolina Republican; Title Variations: North Carolina Republican; Republican and Patriot
Dates: 1850 - December 20, 1854
Location: Film 2163; See Earlier Title: Republican April 21, 1847 - January 30, 1850) New Bern; Goldsboro miscellaneous papers; Dates: 1849 - 1884
Location: Film 2158; The State Journal; Dates: October 27, 1862 - February 18, 1865
Location: Film 2155
Greensboro: *Carolina Peacemaker; Dates: Current 6 Months
Location: Current Periodicals Room
Journal Finder, Online Service; *Carolinian (UNC Greensboro Student Paper); Dates: May 1919 - Present
Locations: Incomplete File in University Archives CN.N86C and Film CN.N86C
Incomplete file on Film 3; Recent issues in Current Periodicals Room and Special Collections
Journal Finder, Online Service; Democrat; Dates: April 17, 1941 - April 13, 1944; Location: Film 21; Greensboro Daily News; Former Title: Daily Industrial News
Dates: July 20, 1909 - March 18, 1984
Location: Film 4; See later title: Greensboro News and Record; Greensboro miscellaneous papers; Dates: 1855 - 1890
Location: Film 965; Greensboro News and Record; Dates: March 19, 1984 - March 1992
Location: Film 4; See later title: News and Record; Index available, 1978 - 1989. Ask in Reerence; Greensboro Patriot; Title variations: Carolina Patriot, Patriot and Flag, Patriot and Times
Dates: April 24, 1826 - April 24, 1947
Location: Film 2160; Merged with Times to form the Patriot and Times
See Related Title: Lexington and Yadkin Flag (July 27, 1855 - January 2, 1857) Lexington; Index available, 1826-1846. AI21 .G730 (Index/Abstract area in Ref); Greensboro Record; Dates: 1959 - March 16, 1984
Location: Film 1671; See later title: Greensboro News and Record; Index available, 1978 - 1989. Ask in Reference; Greensboro Telegram; Title variation: Evening Telegram; Greensboro Evening Telegram
Dates: 1897 - 1911
Location: Film 3139; * News and Record; Title Variations: Greensboro Daily News, Greensboro Record, Greensboro News and Record
Dates: March 16, 1992 - Present
Location: Film 4; Recent issues in Current Periodicals Room
Journal Finder, Online Service; Republican; Dates: Scattered Holdings
Location: Film 965; Times; Dates: January 10, 1856 - June 4, 1868
Location: Film 964
Merged with Patriot to form the Patriot and Times
Halifax: Free Press; Dates: March 26, 1824 - December 29, 1829
Location: Film 2282; See Later Title: North Carolina Free Press (January 1, 1830 - December 29, 1910) Tarboro; Halifax Compiler; Dates: June - July 1818
Location: Film 3145; Halifax Minerva; Dates: 1829 - 1830
Location: Film 3145; North Carolina Journal; Dates: July 26, 1792 - December 7, 1810
Location: Film 250; Roanoke Advocate; Title variations: Roanoke Advocate and State Rights Banner; Roanoke Republican
Dates: March 4, 1830 - February 1856
Location: Film 2856
High Point: *High Point Enterprise; Dates: Current and Previous Months
Location: Current Periodicals Room
Journal Finder; Review; Dates: 1912-1921
Location: Film 3852
Hillsboro: Hillsboro Recorder; Dates: March 1, 1820 - 1879 scattered holdings)
Location: Film 249; See: Durham Recorder (June 2, 1879 - August 2, 1888); North Carolina Gazette
1785 - 1786
Film 248
Lexington: Lexington and Yadkin Flag; Dates: July 27, 1855 - January 2, 1857
Location: Film 2538; See Related Title: Greensboro Patriot April 24, 1826 - April 24, 1947; Lexington Dispatch; Online Service
New Bern: Carolina Centinel; Title variations: Carolina Sentinel; Newbern Sentinel; North Carolina Sentinel
Dates: March 21, 1818 - October 7, 1837
Location: Film 2534; Carolina Federal Republican; Dates: January 12, 1809 - April 25, 1818
Location: Film 973; Daily Progress; Title variations: Newbern Daily Progress; Newbern Progress
Dates: September 1, 1858 - 1863
Location: Film 2533; Published simultaneously in Raleigh in 1862 - 1863
Publication continued as Daily Progress in Raleigh (November 11, 1862 - November 27, 1867); Newbern Gazette; Dates: 1798 - 1804
Location: Film 248; Newbern Spectator; Title variations: Newbern Spectator and Literary Journal; Newbern Spectator and Political Register
Dates: 1828 - 1842
Location: Film 2536; North Carolina Gazette; Dates: 1751 - 1759; 1768 - 1778; 1783 - 1798
Location: Film 248; North Carolina Magazine; Dates: 1764 - 1768
Location: Film 248; North Carolina Times; Title variations: North Carolina Daily Times; New Berne Daily Republican; New Berne; Daily Times; New Bern Republican; New Berne Times; New Berne Weekly Times; Newbern Weekly Times
Dates: January 2, 1864 - December 29, 1874
Location: Film 2535; Republican; Dates: April 21, 1847 - January 30, 1850
Location: Film 2163; See Later Title: Eastern Carolina Republican (1950 - December 20, 1854) Goldsboro; State Gazette of North Carolina; Dates: 1787 - 1796
Location: Film 257; See Later Title: Herald of Freedom (1797 - 1799) Edenton
Raleigh: Caucasian (weekly); Dates: January 3, 1895 - May 15, 1913
Location: Film 971; See Earlier Title: Caucasian March 13, 1884 - December 27, 1894) Clinton; Daily Confederate; Dates: January 26, 1864 - April 11, 1865
Location: Film 2277; See Related Title: Weekly Confederate (February 9, 1864 - March 15, 1865); Daily Conservative; Dates: April 16, 1864 - April 11, 1865
Location: Film 2153; Daily News; Title variations: Raleigh News; News
Dates: March 1, 1872 - September 11, 1880
Location: Film 858; Joined with the Observer to form the News and Observer
See: News and Observer; Daily Progress; Dates: November 11, 1862 - November 27, 1867
Location: Film 2278; Published simultaneously in New Bern in 1862 - 1863
Earlier printed as Daily Progress in New Bern (September 1, 1858 - 1863); Daily Raleigh Register; Dates: February 28, 1868 - March 23, 1868
Location: Film 2157; Daily Register; Dates: November 19, 1850 - January 29, 1851
Location: Film 2157; Daily Sentinel; Title variation: Raleigh Sentinel
Dates: August 8, 1865 - December 2, 1876
Location: Film 253; Daily State Chronicle; Title variation: News & Observer
Dates: March 6, 1890 - June 30, 1893
Location: Film 3850; Era; Title Variations: Carolina Era; Weekly Era; Weekly Era and Examiner
Dates: June 8, 1871 - December 18, 1876
Location: Film 2283; Carolina Era; Tri-weekly Era; Dates: June 6, 1871 - December 4, 1872
Location: Film 2284; Daily Era; Dates: October 21, 1872 - March 8, 1873
Location: Film 2285; The Gazette; Dates: December 9, 1893 - February 19, 1898
Location: Film 1453; News; See: Daily News
Later Title: News and Observer; *News and Observer>; Title variations: News and Observer Chronicle; News Observer Chronicle; Raleigh News and Observer
Dates: September 12, 1880 - Present
Location: Film 1; Recent issues in Current Periodicals Room
Journal Finder, Online Service; Previous Titles:; Daily News; Title variations: Raleigh News; News
Dates: March 1, 1872 - September 11, 1880
Location: Film 858; Joined with the Observer to form the News and Observer; Daily State Chronicle; Title variation: News & Observer
Dates: March 6, 1890 - June 30, 1893
Location: Film 3850; Observer; Dates: November 16, 1876 - September 11, 1880
Location: Film 2164; North Carolina Minerva; Title variations: Anti-Jacobin; The Minerva; North Carolina Minerva and Raleigh Advertiser; Raleigh Minerva
Dates: 1799 - March 23, 1821
Location: Film 319; See Earlier Title: North Carolina Minerva and Fayetteville Advisor (March 31, 1796 - April 1799) Fayetteville; North Carolinian; Title variation: Weekly North Carolinian
Dates: January 30, 1868 - April 1868
Film 2152; Observer; Dates: November 16, 1876 - September 11, 1880
Location: Film 2164
Joined with the Daily News to form the News and Observer; See: News and Observer; Raleigh Daily Tribune; Dates: January 10, 1897 - May 23, 1897
Location: Film 992; Raleigh miscellaneous papers; Dates: 1840 - 1898
Location: Films 5290, 5291, 5292; Raleigh News; See: Daily News
See: News and Observer; Raleigh Register; Raleigh Register;
Raleigh Register and North Carolina Gazette;
Raleigh Register and State Gazette;
Semi-weekly Raleigh Register; Dates: 1823 - 1868
Location: Film 251; Raleigh Register and North Carolina Gazette;
Raleigh Register and North Carolina State Gazette;
Raleigh Register and North Carolina Weekly Advertiser;
Weekly Raleigh Register; North Carolina Gazette; Dates: October 1799 - May 1877
Location: Film 252; Raleigh Star and North Carolina Gazette; Title variations: North Carolina Star; Star; Star and North Carolina Gazette
Dates: January 5, 1816 - June 18, 1856
Location: Film 2167; See Earlier Title: Wilmington Star (November 3, 1808 - December 29, 1815); Raleigh Weekly Telegram; Title variation: Raleigh Daily Telegram
Dates: April 5, 1871 - August 8, 1871
Location: Film 2211; Signal; Title variation: Raleigh Signal
Dates: December 24, 1879 - October 27, 1892
Location: Film 2210; Standard; Title variations:: North Carolina Standard; North Carolina Standard Weekly; Weekly North Carolina Standard; Weekly Standard
Dates: 1834 - April 1865
Location: Film 254; North Carolina Standard; Title variations: North Carolina Standard Weekly; Semi-weekly North Carolina Standard; Semi-weekly Standard; Tri-weekly Standard
Dates: 1850 - July 1868
Location: Film 255; Daily North Carolina Standard; Alternate Titles: Daily Standard; North Carolina Standard
Dates: April 17, 1865 - March 1866; January 1868 - December 1870
Location: Film 256; State Chronicle (Daily); See: Daily State Chronicle
See: News and Observer
See Related Title: Weekly State Chronicle; State Chronicle (weekly); See: Weekly State Chronicle
See Related Title: Daily State Chronicle; State Journal; Title variation: Daily State Journal
Dates: December 1, 1860 - October 22, 1862 (scattered holdings)
Location: Film 2286; Weekly Confederate; Dates: February 9, 1864 - March 15, 1865
Location: Film 2277
See Related Title: Daily Confederate (January 26, 1864 - April 11, 1865); Weekly Post; Title variation: Southern Weekly Post
Dates: December 13, 1851 - November 13, 1852; December 11, 1852 - November 1855
Location: Film 2209; Weekly State Chronicle; Title variation: State Chronicle (Weekly)
Dates: September 15, 1883 - January 31, 1890
Location: Film 3854
See Related Title: Daily State Chronicle; Weekly State Journal; Title variation: Democratic Press
Dates: November 28, 1860 - February 1864; November 1879 - June 25, 1884
Location: Film 2208; Whig Clarion; Dates: May 10, 1843 - November 6, 1844
Location: Film 2212
Rutherfordton: Rutherford Star; Title variation: Rutherfordton Star
Dates: May 2, 1866 - April 20, 1872
Location: Film 967
Salisbury: Salisbury Post; Online Service; Carolina Watchman; Title variations: Old North State; Watchman and Old North State
Dates: July 28, 1832 - September 1898
Location: Film 315; Daily Union Banner; Dates: May 15, 1865 - August 20, 1866 (scattered holdings)
Location: Film 689; Salisbury miscellaneous papers; Dates: 1846 - 1899
Location: Film 2162; North Carolina Mercury and Salisbury Advertiser; Dates: 1799 - 1801
Location: Film 248; Republican Banner; Dates: November 3, 1854 - February 3, 1857
Location: Film 690; Salisbury Banner; Dates: January 5, 1858 - October 18, 1867
Location: Film 690; Western Carolinian; Dates: January 13, 1820 - September 16, 1842
Location: Film 692; Yadkin and Catawba Journal; Dates: May 20, 1828 - February 17, 1834
Location: Film 969
See Earlier Title: Catawba Journal (October 4, 1824 - April 29, 1828) Charlotte
Statesville: Iredell Express; Dates: December 3, 1858 - April 13, 1865
Location: Film 691
Tarboro: North Carolina Free Press; Title variations: The Enquirer Southerner; N. Carolina Freepress; The Southerner; Tarborough Free Press; Tarboro Press; Tarboro Southerner; Tarborough Press; Tarborough Southerner
Dates: January 1, 1830 - December 29, 1910
Location: Film 2282
See Earlier Title: Free Press (March 26, 1824 - December 29, 1829) Halifax
Washington: American Recorder; Dates: 1815 - 1858
Location: Film 3147; Washington Whig; Title variations: North State Whig; Washington Whig; Washington Whig and Republican Gazette; Whig
Dates: August 9, 1835 - October 11, 1854
Location: Film 3148
Wilmington: Cape Fear Mercury; Dates: 1769 - 1775
Location: Film 248; Cape Fear Recorder; Dates: May 20, 1816 - May 16, 1832
Location: Film 2537; Daily Dispatch; Dates: 1865 - 1867
Location: Film 3138; Daily Herald; Title variations: Wilmington Daily Herald
Dates: June 22, 1854 - May 1, 1861
Location: Film 2532; Evening Star; Dates: September 23, 1867 - October 12, 1867
Location: Film 2169
See Later Title: Morning Star (October 15, 1867 - December 30, 1900); Hall's Wilmington Gazette; Dates: 1797 - 1798
Location: Film 248; Morning Star; Dates: September, 1867 - December, 1922
Location: Film 2169
See Earlier Title: Evening Star (September 23, 1867 - October 12, 1867); Morning Star; Title variations: Sunday Star-news; Wilmington Morning Star
Dates: June 4, 1994 - April 23, 2003
See Later Title: Star-News; North Carolina Gazette; Dates: 1764 - 1766
Location: Film 248; People's Press and Wilmington Advertiser; Title variations: People's Press; Wilmington Advertiser
Dates: January 9, 1833 - May 20, 1841
Location: Film 2858; Post; See: Wilmington Post; Star-News; Title variations: Sunday Star-news; Wilmington Morning Star: Morning Star
Dates: April 24, 2003-
See earlier title: Morning Star
Journal Finder, Online Service; Weekly Transcript and Messenger; Title variations: Wilmington Messenger
Dates: January 25, 1878 - June 27, 1889
Location: Film 3144
See Related Title: Carolina Messenger (October 22, 1869 - June 13, 1887) Goldsboro; Wilmington Centinel; Dates: 1788
Location: Film 248; Wilmington Chronicle; Dates: 1795 - 1796
Location: Film 248; Wilmington Gazette; Dates: 1799 - 1800; 1801 - 1806; 1807 - 1816
Location: Film 248; Wilmington Journal; Dates: September 21, 1844 - October 27, 1876
Location: Film 974; Wilmington Post; Title variations: Evening Post; Post; Weekly Post; Wilmington Daily Post; Wilmington
Semi-Weekly Post
Dates: August 7, 1867 - May 3, 1868 (daily);December 5, 1867 - February 13, 1868 (tri-weekly);May 16, 1872 - August 8, 1875 (daily)
Location: Film 321; Dates: June 14, 1872 - February 22, 1884 (weekly)
Location: Film 322; Dates: May 7, 1868 - May 12, 1872
Location: Film 2207; Wilmington Semi-Weekly Post; See: Wilmington Post; Wilmington Star; Dates: November 3, 1808 - December 29, 1815
Location: Film 2167
See Later Title: Raleigh Star and North Carolina Gazette (January 5, 1816 - June 18,
1856); * The Chronicle; Dates: Current 6 Months
Location: Current Periodicals Room
Journal Finder, Online Service; People's Press
Title variation: Western Sentinel
Dates: 1851 - 1892
Location: Film 3137; Winston Leader
Title variation: Daily Leader
Dates: January 21, 1879 - June 9, 1885 (scattered holdings)
Location: Film 3134; *Winston-Salem Journal; Dates: Current and Previous Months in print
Location: Current Periodicals Room
Journal Finder, Online Service Available online 2/ 1/1997 - present from Infotrac.

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