Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana

Jefferson County Museum Completes Online Archive of 1885-1925 County Newspapers

The Jefferson County Museum has successfully completed our project of putting Jefferson County Newspapers from 1885-1925 online at montananewspapers.org. The Jefferson County Commissioners, Bob Mullen, Leonard Wortman, and Cory Kirsch approved the funding for this project. Jefferson County Museum Board member, Jamie Guenther, initiated the project well over a year ago.

The following newspapers are now searchable online:

Basin newspapers: Basin Times (1894-1896), Basin Progress (1896-1900), Basin. Progress/Mining Review (1904-1909).

Boulder papers: Jefferson County Enterprise (1885), Jefferson County Sentinel (1885-1899), The Age (1888-1900), The Sentinel(1899-1904), The Age Sentinel (1899-1909), Boulder Monitor (1907-1925).

Clancy area: Lump Miner (1895), Hartford Pioneer (1895), Clancy Miner (1896-1899).

Whitehall: Jefferson Valley Zephyr (1894-1901), Montana Sunlight (1902-1911), Jefferson Valley News (1911-1925).

Wickes: Wickes Pioneer (1895-1896).

The museum would like to thank these entities for supporting our efforts: The Heritage Center, Jefferson Valley Museum, Boulder Monitor, Whitehall Ledger, Jefferson High School, Whitehall Public School, Clancy School, Cardwell School, Boulder Community Library, North Jefferson County Library District, and the Montana Historical Society.

We hope a year from now we can digitize and make available online Jefferson County newspapers from 1926 to 1960. The Jefferson County Museum is open Fridays 1-5 and Saturdays 10:30-4. We are located at 5 N. Main Street in Clancy at the Old Red Schoolhouse.

 

Reader Comments(0)