Historic newspapers · North Carolina

North Carolina historic newspapers: 67,335 free digitised pages

Name: North Carolina historic newspapers (Chronicling America)
Creator: Library of Congress
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Everything below is what the Library of Congress holds online for North Carolina in Chronicling America, counted on 2026-10-06. The pages are free to read and searchable by name; an obituary or a marriage notice here is often the only record of a date before civil registration.

Titles with the most digitised pages

Newspaper	Years	Pages online
Henderson Daily Dispatch (Henderson, N.C.)	1914–1995	4,847
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)		3,560
The Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)	1909–1990	2,902
The Chapel Hill Weekly (Chapel Hill, N.C.)	1923–1972	2,534
Watauga Democrat (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.)		2,340
Hickory Daily Record (Hickory, N.C.)		2,240
The Hillsborough Recorder (Hillsborough, N.C.)	1820–1879	2,132
The Times-News (Hendersonville, N.C.)		1,876
The Commonwealth (Scotland Neck, N.C.)	1896–1929	1,619
Wilmington Journal (Wilmington, N.C.)	1844–1895	1,604

Counties

Wake 14,121 pages
Orange 6,648 pages
Vance 6,138 pages
New Hanover 5,703 pages
Halifax 3,802 pages
Mecklenburg 3,060 pages
Henderson 2,520 pages
Watauga 2,340 pages
Catawba 2,240 pages
Buncombe 2,238 pages

Cities

Raleigh 14,121 pages
Henderson 6,138 pages
Wilmington 5,703 pages
Charlotte 3,060 pages
Hillsboro 2,971 pages
Chapel Hill 2,534 pages
Hendersonville 2,520 pages
Boone 2,340 pages
Hickory 2,240 pages
Asheville 2,238 pages

By decade

1800 to 1809 3 pages
1810 to 1819 3 pages
1820 to 1829 252 pages
1830 to 1839 662 pages
1840 to 1849 2,254 pages
1850 to 1859 4,237 pages
1860 to 1869 3,954 pages
1870 to 1879 1,848 pages
1880 to 1889 3,902 pages
1890 to 1899 12,236 pages
1900 to 1909 7,744 pages
1910 to 1919 6,915 pages
1920 to 1929 3,752 pages
1930 to 1939 7,657 pages
1940 to 1949 8,158 pages
1950 to 1959 3,293 pages
1960 to 1969 817 pages

Languages

English 67,331 pages
German 4 pages

Ethnic press: African American, German

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