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  • Description is exactly "A collection of Circuit, Justice and Mayor's Court notices from the Florence Herald Newspaper for the years 1889-1910.

    These notices list who was in court that week, what they were charged with and what the sentence was. In the late 19th century African-Americans were typically denoted as "colored" or (c) however the Herald didn't always do this, thus figuring out exactly who was African-American is tricky sometimes. I've tried to include only those that I'm pretty certain contain the names of local African-Americans.

    The Florence Wave was founded in 1885 by Dr. WJ Kernachan of Florence but was purchased by the American Publishing Company and became the Florence Herald in July of 1889; until 1891 the paper was published semi-weekly. It continued publishing as a weekly until 1976. It eventually merged with the Picture Page to become the Florence Herald=Picture and published a few more years, into the 1980s.
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