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Newspapers were the primary way to find out what was going around us for hundreds of years. However, printed newspapers are not as common as they used to be.
Newspapers have played an important role in the history of the United States, starting in British colonies. Publick Occurrences, the first newspaper in America, was first published in Boston in 1690. Since then, papers have grown, merged, and changed with the times, but their impact remins the same.
While many newspapers have come and gone over the years, here are the first major papers in every state and what some of their early editions looked like. Just a note that in some cases, more than one paper claim's to be the state's first and some images are limited based on archival data.
Alabama: The Mobile Gazette
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The Mobile Gazette started publishing in 1813, right after the American troops took over the city from the Spanish in April. The Mobile Gazette has undergone many name changes over its more than 200-year history. Today it's called The Press-Register.
Alaska: The Esquimaux
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The Esquimaux was the first known newspaper published in what was then known as Port Clarence, Russian America. Captain Daniel B. Libby hand wrote the first edition of The Esquimaux on October 14th, 1866, and discussed what was going on in the Arctic and how little light there was.
Arizona: The Weekly Arizonian
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The Weekly Arizonian, first published March 3rd, 1859, started off as a Republican newspaper owned by the Santa Rita Silver Mining Company. After just a few months at press, editor Edward E. Cross got into a political argument with a Congress nominee, and The Weekly Arizonian was sold to another company. Cross decided to quit as the editor, and in August of 1859, The Weekly Arizonian became a Democratic publication.
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