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The Historic North Carolina Digital Newspaper Collection includes 3.5 million pages of digitized content from over 1,000 NC county newspapers, including the following Rockingham County publications:

The Anglo-Saxon
The Bee
Dan Valley Echo
The Enterprise
Leaksville Gazette
Leaksville Herald
Leaksville Reporter
Piedmont Dispatch
The Record
Reidsville Times
Reidsville News
Reidsville Review
The Rocket
Rockingham Post-Dispatch
The Southern Index
Spirit of the South
Webster’s Weekly

Historic North Carolina Digital Newspaper Collection is available to all North Carolina residents through NCLive.  A login and password is required and may be obtained through your local library, or through colleges, universities and community colleges to enrolled students.

 

DigitalNC is a wonderful resource, but sometimes it’s difficult to find what you’re looking for.  This blog post gives some great tips on best bets for finding and searching materials related to military history.

 

The New Hanover County Public Library has some good general information on researching the history of your home. Find out how to research when it was built and who lived there before you.

 

 

The Journal of Rockingham County History and Genealogy, published from 1976-2015 by the Rockingham County Historical Society, contains many articles on the history of the county, as well as families, cemeteries, churches and more. The full text of the Journal is not available online, but an index is.  Full articles may be requested through your local library.

Index to The Journal of Rockingham County History and Genealogy

 

Rockingham County Legacy is a collaborative project of Rockingham Community College, Rockingham County Public Library and DigitalNC which provides a gateway to images, documents and artifacts relating to the people, history and cultural heritage of Rockingham County, NC.

One important part of the project includes a large collection of photographs of old homes and farms in Rockingham County, many no longer standing, with information on families associated with the properties.  You can browse the entire Rockingham County Legacy collection, or go directly to the photos of homes and farms.

                                                        Fewell-Reynolds House