Verkkoin colonial days, the king forbade georgia colonists to publish a newspaper for the first 30 years of its existence. Instead, people relied on news from traveling visitors,. Verkkoconsisting of 39 titles and over 7,097 issues covering atkinson, baldwin, bartow, coffee, colquitt, dade, and henry counties, these latest digital. Since 2007, the digital library of georgia has been providing access to the state’s historic newspapers through multiple, online city and regional newspaper archives. Verkkobased at the university of georgia libraries, the dlg has partnered with universities, archives, public libraries, historical societies, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions to digitize historical newspapers from around the state. Verkkothe online archive is free and open for public use and includes over 2. 8 million georgia newspaper pages between 1763 and 2022. Verkkothe georgia historic newspapers archive is a project of the digital library of georgia that provides free access to digitized online versions of historical. Verkkogeorgia's first newspaper, the savannah gazette, began publication there three decades later. Courtesy of hargrett library, map collection.
