Old Ohio Newspapers Added to the Chronicling America Collection Posted by the Library of Congress

The following is from the July 14, 2014 edition of The Columbus Dispatch:

Democratic Northwest and Henry County News Headlines

A fascinating collection of Ohio’s historic small town newspapers has been digitized and added to the Library of Congress “Chronicling America” website

The Ohio History Connection said the [searchable] newspapers were digitized with a $248,600 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The latest editions will join 40 other papers, and 200,000 pages, published between 1845-1922…

Read the full article.

The following newspapers were added:
Carroll Free Press, 1836, 1841-1858;
Jackson Standard, 1853-1858, 1866-1888 and Jackson Daily Standard, 1873-1874, 1880-1881;
Lower Sandusky Freeman, 1849-1849, Freeman, 1849-1850
Fremont Weekly Freeman, 1850-1853;
(Napoleon) Democratic Northwest, 1881-1894 and Democratic Northwest and Henry County News, 1894-1897
Plymouth Advertiser, 1853-1855.

About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

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