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NewspaperCat: Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers. Gainesville. "South Carolina". N-Net: the Newspaper Network on the World Wide Web. Archived from the original on February 15, 1997. "South Carolina Newspapers". AJR News Link. American Journalism Review. Archived from the original on November 16, 1999. "United States: South Carolina ...
Cheraw High School in South Carolina is part of the Chesterfield County School District. It is at 649 Chesterfield Highway. Braves are the school mascot. It serves grades 9–12 with an enrollment of about 650. [1] A majority of students are African American and 100 percent of the student body is categorized as economically disadvantaged.
Cheraw (/ tʃ ə ˈ r ɔː / chə-RAW, locally / ʃ ə ˈ r ɔː / shə-RAW) is a town on the Pee Dee River in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 5,040 at the 2020 census. [5] The greater Cheraw area in the zip code 29520 has a population of 13,689 according to the 2019 ACS data.
More than 130 such newspapers were published in the state between 1865 and 1970. [1] The first was the South Carolina Leader , established at Charleston in 1865. [ 2 ] In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the growth of the African American press in South Carolina was hampered by the fact that a large proportion of South Carolina African ...
The Herald is a daily morning newspaper published in Rock Hill, South Carolina, in the United States. Its coverage is York , Chester , and Lancaster counties . In 1990, the paper was bought by The McClatchy Company of Sacramento, California.
The Cheraw and Darlington Railroad was a 26-mile (42 km) 5 ft (1,524 mm) [1] gauge shortline railroad that served South Carolina and, later, North Carolina, beginning before the American Civil War. The gauge was changed to 4 ft 9 in ( 1,448 mm ) in 1886.
Frank Jenkins sold the newspaper in 1960 to Scripps League Newspapers. [12] In 1975, the company split off eleven of its daily newspapers including the Herald and News to form a new company called Pioneer Newspapers, Inc., [13] which in 2013 was renamed to Pioneer News Group. [14] In 2017, Pioneer sold its papers to Adams Publishing Group. [15 ...
The county is named for Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, a British politician who opposed the Stamp Act of 1765, which was deeply unpopular in South Carolina, and who was known for always speaking up for the rights of the colonists while he was serving in the British Parliament and when he served as British Secretary of State.