List of defunct newspapers of North Carolina


Most of the newspapers started in North Carolina in the 18th-century no longer exist. The first newspaper, the North Carolina Gazette was published in New Bern, North Carolina. These defunct newspapers of North Carolina were replaced by newspapers that started in the 19th-century. With the progress of technology, introduction of social media, and trend towards corporate conglomerate ownership many newspapers did not survive in the 20th and 21st-century.

Newspapers published in the 18th-century

There are currently 84 newspapers known to have been published in North Carolina between 1751 and 1800. Many newspapers went through one or more title changes, as shown in the table below.
TitleEstablishedCeased PublicationCityCountyOnline Version of NewspapreNotes and References
North-Carolina gazette and Wilmington weekly post-boy.; The North-Carolina gazette.17641769WilmingtonNew Hanover
The North-Carolina magazine or, Universal intelligencer.17641768New BernCraven
The Noth. Carolina gazette.17511799New BernCraven
The North-Carolina gazette.17681778New BernCraven
The Cape-Fear mercury.17691775WilmingtonNew Hanover
The Noth. Carolina gazette, or, New-Bern advertiser.; The North Carolina gazette, or, Impartial intelligencer, and weekly general advertiser.; Martin's North-Carolina gazette.; The North-Carolina gazette.17801799New BernCraven
The State gazette of North-Carolina.; The Herald of freedom.1780?Edenton; New BernChowan; Craven
The North Carolina gazette.17851786HillsboroughOrange
The North-Carolina gazette, or, The Edenton intelligencer.; The Edenton inteligencer .17871789EdentonChowan
The Wilmington centinel, and general advertiser.17881789WilmingtonNew Hanover
Fayetteville gazette.; The North-Carolina chronicle; or, Fayetteville gazette.17891791FayettevilleCumberland
Fayetteville gazette.; The North-Carolina centinel and Fayetteville gazette.17921795FayettevilleCumberland
The North-Carolina journal.17921814HalifaxHalifax
The Wilmington chronicle: North Carolina weekly advertiser.17951796WilmingtonNew Hanover
The North-Carolina Minerva, and Fayetteville advertiser.; The North-Carolina Minerva, and Raleigh advertiser.; The North-Carolina Minerva.; Minerva, or, Anti-Jacobin.; The Minerva.; The Raleigh Minerva.17961821FayettevilleCumberland
Hall's Wilmington gazette.; The Wilmington gazette.; Wilmington gazette, commercial and political.17971816WilmingtonNew Hanover
The Newbern gazette.; The Newbern gazette, and political and miscellaneous register.17981804New BernCraven
The North-Carolina mercury, and Salisbury advertiser.17981801SalisburyRowan
Raleigh register, and North-Carolina weekly advertiser.; Raleigh register, and North-Carolina state gazette.; Raleigh register, and North-Carolina gazette.; The Weekly Raleigh register.17991863RaleighWake
The daily gazette.1800?WashingtonBeaufort
Illustrated southern educator.1800?DurhamDurham
Herald of the times.18001899Elizabeth CityPasquotank
The herald.1800?WebsterJackson
Farm and fireside.18001899High PointGuilford
The farmer and mechanic.1800?RaleighWake
The Farmer and Scottish chief.18001899Red SpringsRobeson
The gazette-messenger.18001909WashingtonBeaufort
The gazette-messenger.1800?WashingtonBeaufort
The gazette.1800?RaleighWake
African expositor.18001899RaleighWake
Cleaveland banner.; Shelby banner.18001879ShelbyCleveland
The Clinton Caucasian.1800?ClintonSampson
The Henderson index.; The weekly index.18001899HendersonVance
The Great sunny South.1800?Snow HillGreene
The Battleboro progress.18001899BattleboroEdgecombe;Nash
The Anglo-Saxon.18001899GoldsboroWayne
The Daily landmark.1800?StatesvilleIredell
Daily rocket.1800?RockinghamRichmond
The deaf mute.18001899RaleighWake
The New Berne weekly times.18001874New BernCraven
The New-Berne Republican and courier.; The Republican & courier.; The Republic and courier.; The Republic-courier.18001879New BernCraven
The Newbernian.; Daily Newbernian.18001899New BernCraven
Roanoke patron.18001899PotecasiNorthampton
The Messenger - in ashes.18001899GoldsboroWayne
The progressive reformer.1800?Kings MountainCleveland
The Raleigh post.1800?RaleighWake
The recorder.1800?WilmingtonNew Hanover
The nationalist.1800?RaleighWake
Mountain home-journal.1800?AshevilleBuncombe
Mountain home-journal.; The morning gazette.1800?AshevilleBuncombe
The mountaineer.; The Carolina mountaineer.; The Morganton star.; The Morganton herald.18001901MorgantonBurke
The Kings Mountain herald.18001974Kings MountainCleveland
The Encyclopedian instructor, and farmer's gazette.; The Post-angel, or, Universal entertainment.; The Edenton gazette.18001800EdentonChowan
The Madison news.1800?MadisonRockingham
Marion record.1800?MarionMcDowell
North Carolina herald.18001899AsheboroRandolph
North Carolina state advertiser.18001899RaleighWake
North-Carolina messenger and Warrenton patriotic miscellany.18001899WarrentonWarren
Our rights.18001899WilmingtonNew Hanover
Our fatherless ones.; Barium messenger.18002014Barium SpringsIredell
The Southern service.1800?CharlotteMecklenburg
Southern voice.1800?BethelPitt
The southern farmer.1800?RaleighWake
The Stovall courier.1800?StovallGranville
The Western North Carolina times.; Hendersonville daily times.; Hendersonville times.18001927HendersonvilleHenderson
The Washington echo.18001899WashingtonBeaufort
The Washington messenger.1800?WashingtonBeaufort
The weekly observer.18001899CharlotteMecklenburg
The star.1800?HighlandsMacon
State prohibition organ.1800?RaleighWake
The temperance herald.18001899ConcordCabarrus
Tobacco leaf.18001879CharlotteMecklenburg
The Christian sun.1800?Elon College;GreensboroAlamance;Guilford
Charlotte observer.18001899CharlotteMecklenburg
The Charlotte chronicle.; Semi-weekly Charlotte observer.; Weekly Charlotte observer.1800?CharlotteMecklenburg
Carolina fruit and truckers journal.1800?Chadbourn;WilmingtonColumbus;New Hanover
The Carolinian.18001899New BernCraven
The business guide.1800?Winston-SalemForsyth
The evening bulletin.; The daily bulletin.18001899CharlotteMecklenburg
The evening chronicle.18001914CharlotteMecklenburg
Evening press.18001899CharlotteMecklenburg
The Investigator.18001899WilsonWilson

Defunct newspapers established in the 19th- and 20th- centuries

There were 495 North Carolina newspapers published between 1800 and 1860. There were 1538 North Carolina newspapers published between 1860 and 1900. There were 1,622 North Carolina newspapers published between 1900 and 2010. There were approximately 240 North Carolina newspapers in publication at the beginning of 2020.
TitleCityCountyEstablishedCeased publicationNotes and References
Alamance GleanerAlamance County18561875
American, TheStatesvilleIredell18581870
The Andrews JournalAndrewsCherokee1959
Apex HeraldApexWake?2013
Burke County NewsMorgantonBurke18991901
Carolina Times, TheDurhamDurham19191971
Carolina WatchmanSalisburyRowan18321937
Carrboro CitizenCarrboroOrange20072012
Cary News, TheCaryChatham/Wake19632018
Caucasian, TheClinton188?1913
Charlotte News, TheCharlotteMecklenburg19281985
Charlotte News and Evening Chronicle, TheCharlotteMecklenburg19141928
Clayton News-StarClaytonJohnston/ Wake
Commonwealth, TheScotland NeckHalifax1882/18961884/1929
Daily Confederate, TheRaleighWake18641865
Daily Industrial News?1909
Daily Southerner, TheTarboroEdgecombe18262014
Durham Recorder, TheDurhamDurham1887188?
Farmer and Mechanic, TheRaleighWake18771885
Fayetteville News, TheFayettevilleCumberland18661868
Fayetteville Times, TheFayettevilleCumberland19711990
Garner NewsFuquay-VarinaWake2013
Goldsboro Daily Rough NotesGoldsboroWayne186?186?
Greensboro Daily NewsGreensboroGuilford19091984
Greensboro RecordGreensboroGuilford19301984
Hillsborough Recorder, TheHillsboroughOrange18201879
Holly Springs SunHolly SpringsWake2013
Independent Press, TheConcordCabarrus
Mecklenburg JeffersonianCharlotteMecklenburg18411849
Mercury, TheRaleighWake
Messenger, TheSurry
Milton Chronicle, TheMiltonCaswell
Milton Spectator, TheMiltonCaswell
North Carolina Standard, TheRaleighWake18341869
Norwood News, TheNorwoodStanly
Old North State, TheSalisburyRowan
Orange County Observer, TheHillsboroOrange
Pender ChronicleBurgawPender190?2012
Pender PostBurgawPender19712012
Raleigh SentinelRaleighWake18651877
Raleigh TimesRaleighWake18791989
Roanoke News, TheWeldonHalifax
Smoky Mountain SentinelHayesvilleClay County19872012
Statesville American, TheStatesvilleIredell18701886
Statesville American and Tobacco JournalStatesvilleIredell18861???
Suedliche Post, DieGoldsboroWayne186918??
Daily Southerner, TheTarboroEdgecombe18262014
Tri-Weekly Old North State, TheSalisburyRowan
Topsail VoiceBurgawPender19912012
Twin City SentinelWinston-SalemForsyth?1985
Valdese NewsValdeseBurke19381950
Weekly Courier, TheWarrentonWarren
Weekly News, TheCharlotteMecklenburg
Western Democrat, TheCharlotteMecklenburg18521870
Western Sentinel, TheWinston-SalemForsyth1856/18871886/1926
Wilmington Journal, TheWilmingtonNew Hanover18441895

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