North Carolina newspapers

Chatham's local papers mostly don't go back beyond the 1870s, but Chatham news was often in the Fayetteville papers before that.

• A selection of student and community newspapers from schools and towns around NC is available at Digital NC. This includes the Chatham Record from 1878-1930.

• Microfilm copies of the Chatham Record are available at the Chatham Community Library.

• Online newspapers are available at newspapers.com. This is a subscription site; some papers are part of an Ancestry.com subscription and through the Chatham Community Collection. The CC collection of newspapers is not a full complete subscription.

• Another subscription site with a different set of papers is GenealogyBank.com.

• Some years of other newspapers are also available on microfilm at the Chatham Community Library.
  • Chatham Citizen
  • Chatham County Herald / Chatham Herald-Tribune / Pittsboro Herald
  • Chatham Observer

• NCLive also provides some Chatham issues that are not duplicated on DigitalNC, and those are also accessed via the Chatham Community Library. See this description from the CCHA.

• There is a fantastic listing of online NC newspapers at The Ancestor Hunt.