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Richmond Free Press: Richmond: 1992 Weekly Richmond Times-Dispatch [5] Richmond: 1850 [14] Daily Lee Enterprises: Roanoke Star-Sentinel: Roanoke: 2007 Weekly Roanoke Times [5] Roanoke: 1886 Daily Lee Enterprises: Roanoke Tribune: Roanoke: 1939 Weekly founded by Fleming Alexander: Smithfield Times: Smithfield: 1920 Weekly Smith Mountain Eagle ...
The newspaper served the Whig Party and during its run was one of the four major newspapers in the city of Richmond, Virginia. [4] Like many newspapers during the Civil War, the Richmond Whig published viewpoints and news on the institution of slavery and some of these viewpoints put Pleasants at odds with Thomas Ritchie, who edited the rival newspaper the Richmond Enquirer. [5]
The Richmond Enquirer found Fitzhugh's pro-slavery sentiments to be sound, declaring that the justification of slavery was not an issue of "mere negro slavery", but that in of itself "slavery is a right, natural and necessary." [39] Fitzhugh maintained that slavery was the best institution to ensure "the rights of man". [30]: 45
William Fitzhugh Gordon was born at "Germanna", a plantation near Fredericksburg, Virginia to Elizabeth Gordon and her husband (and cousin) James Gordon, Jr. (1759-1799). ). His grandfather John Gordon had emigrated to the Virginia colony in 1738 from County Down in northern Ireland, as did his elder brother James Gordon (1711-1768), and they both became successful tobacco merchants and ...
On May 9, 1804, he bought the Republican newspaper the Richmond Enquirer from the Jones family with its current mechanical department head W. W. Worsley. On July 30, 1805, he became sole editor and owner and he made it a financial and political success, as editor and publisher for 41 years. The paper appeared three times a week.
A federal court jury cleared Rutherford County Sheriff Mike Fitzhugh and retired Smyrna Police Chief Kevin Arnold of liability for faulty 2018 raids.
The Richmond Enquirer & Examiner was published from July 15, 1867 to December 31, 1869, when the newspaper changed its name back to simply Richmond Enquirer. The Library of Virginia has microfilm copies of the Examiner's weekly, semi-weekly, and daily editions for all of the years noted above, and has paper copies of the Semi-Weekly Examiner ...
The Bucks County Courier Times previously won the Dew award in 2017 for its award-winning “Unwell Water” series on PFAS, or forever chemicals, in local drinking water.