Historic newspapers · South Carolina

South Carolina historic newspapers: 68,502 free digitised pages

Name: South 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 South Carolina in Chronicling America, counted on 2026-10-07. 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
Yorkville Enquirer (Yorkville, S.C.)	1855–2006	4,864
Southern Christian Advocate (Charleston, S.C.)	1837–1948	4,298
Edgefield Advertiser (Edgefield, S.C.)		3,451
The Watchman and Southron (Sumter, S.C.)	1881–1930	3,305
The Abbeville Press and Banner (Abbeville, S.C.)	1869–1924	3,091
The Daily Phoenix (Columbia, S.C.)	1865–1878	3,078
The Charleston Daily News (Charleston, S.C.)	1865–1873	2,642
The Anderson Intelligencer (Anderson Court House, S.C.)	1860–1914	2,641
Baptist Courier (Greenville, S.C.)	1877–2013	2,397
The Herald and News (Newberry S.C.)	1903–1937	2,351

Counties

Richland 10,609 pages
Anderson 7,752 pages
Charleston 7,723 pages
Greenville 7,342 pages
York 6,683 pages
Orangeburg 5,742 pages
Newberry 4,796 pages
Pickens 4,771 pages
Spartanburg 4,537 pages
Bibb 4,298 pages

Cities

Columbia 10,609 pages
Charleston 7,793 pages
Anderson 7,752 pages
Greenville 7,342 pages
Orangeburg 5,742 pages
York 5,315 pages
Newberry 4,796 pages
Pickens 4,718 pages
Spartanburg 4,537 pages
Augusta 4,298 pages

By decade

1760 to 1769 1 pages
1770 to 1779 10 pages
1780 to 1789 261 pages
1830 to 1839 538 pages
1840 to 1849 1,989 pages
1850 to 1859 3,387 pages
1860 to 1869 7,715 pages
1870 to 1879 8,850 pages
1880 to 1889 6,257 pages
1890 to 1899 7,798 pages
1900 to 1909 11,828 pages
1910 to 1919 11,430 pages
1920 to 1929 8,602 pages
1930 to 1939 27 pages
1940 to 1949 40 pages
1950 to 1959 23 pages
1960 to 1969 22 pages

Languages

English 68,502 pages

Ethnic press: African American

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