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The newspaper was created in 1977 from the merging of two competing newspapers, the Wayne County Press and the Jesup Sentinel, both of which probably existed most of a century before that time. [1] The earlier origins of the paper are difficult to verify, as most records were destroyed in a fire in 1926, but certain pieces of information date ...
(Includes information about weekly rural newspapers in Georgia) Louis Turner Griffith; John Erwin Talmadge (1951). Georgia Journalism, 1763-1950. University of Georgia Press. OCLC 1405638. Millard B. Grimes (1985). The Last Linotype: The Story of Georgia and Its Newspapers Since World War II. Mercer University Press. ISBN 978-0-86554-190-0.
Wayne County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census , the population was 30,144. [ 1 ] The county seat is Jesup .
Pages in category "Wayne County, Georgia" ... The Press-Sentinel; T. John W. C. Trowell House; W. Wayne County Courthouse (Georgia) Wayne County Library (Jesup, Georgia)
Jesup is a city in Wayne County, Georgia, United States. The population was 9,809 at the 2020 census. The city is the county seat of Wayne County. [4] History
The first such newspaper in Georgia was The Colored American, founded in Augusta in 1865. [1] However, most were founded in Atlanta. While most such newspapers in Georgia have been very short-lived, a few, such as the Savannah Tribune, Atlanta Daily World, and Atlanta Inquirer, have had extensive influence over many decades. [2]: 119
The John W. C. Trowell House in Jesup in Wayne County, Georgia was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. [1] It is a Queen Anne-style house built in 1902. It was home of John W. C. Trowell (b.1862 in Screven County, Georgia, d.1939 in this house) and his wife Ella née Butler (c.1865-1951). [2]
WIFO-FM (105.5 FM) is Jesup's FM heritage station, broadcasting a wide variety of programming, including mornings with Butch Hubbard, Local News with Bob Morgan, Local Sports; The only FM Atlanta Braves affiliate for Baxley, Hinesville, Jesup, Waycross, Brunswick, and Camden County; Since 1971 the oldest continuous FM Braves Affiliate.