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Carrington City Library
Carrington, North Dakota
Explore this community history collection to discover the people, places, organizations, and events of Carrington.
1800 to 2020Dates represented
See individual titles for available dates.
240,550Archive pages
Historical pages reported for this collection.
Explore local history
Discover the people, places, and stories of Carrington, North Dakota.
Discover another side of Carrington, North Dakota through newspapers preserved in the Carrington City Library's digital archive. Its eighty-one titles include material from 1800 to 2020.
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Selected titles
In the collection shared by Carrington City Library, you will find “Carrington Weekly Independent” and “Williams County Banner”.
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A closer look
An earlier generation comes into view through the stories its newspapers chose to report, placing familiar names and events within the concerns of their time.
The reporting of earlier years offers a way to explore how events were understood as they happened and how local experiences became part of the historical record. A family story, a classroom project or curiosity about a familiar place can lead to a closer look at the community and the lives of earlier generations. Explore the archive online for free, without a subscription.
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Titles in this collection
Browse eighty-one titles and 240,550 digitized pages, with material from 1800 to 2020. Through a partnership with Advantage Archives, Carrington City Library shares these sources from the past. Some years or items may be missing between the dates shown.
If you are tracing a family connection or exploring local history, the titles below offer a place to begin and a thread to follow.
Carrington Weekly Independent
7,572 pages from 1902 to 1914
Census
2,666 pages in 1915
Daily News And Times
8 pages in 1893
Devils Lake News
136 pages from 1891 to 1904
Folkets Avis
48 pages from 1899 to 1901
Foster County Independent
500 pages from 1901 to 1902
Grand Forks Herald
18 pages from 1879 to 1880
Grand Forks Plaindealer
8 pages in 1880
Grand Forks Republican And Northwest News
8 pages in 1898
Grand Forks Weekly Plaindealer
32 pages in 1889
Harvey Herald
32 pages in 1897
Historic Photos Carrington
576 pages from 1876 to 2020
Historic Photos Foster County
102 pages from 1900 to 1960
Historic Photos Foster County
18 pages from 1900 to 1914
Historic Photos Foster County
6 pages in 1885
Historic Photos Foster County
14 pages from 1876 to 1963
Historic Photos Foster County
82 pages from 1800 to 1976
Historic Photos Foster County
66 pages from 1930 to 1948
Historic Photos Foster County
46 pages from 1900 to 1963
Historic Photos Foster County
60 pages from 1900 to 1950
Historic Photos Foster County
22 pages from 1900 to 1922
Historic Photos Foster County
14 pages from 1900 to 1922
Historic Photos Foster County
2 pages in 1910
Larimore Leader
204 pages from 1883 to 1903
Nelson County Capital
8 pages in 1883
North Dakota Independent
16 pages in 1892
North Dakota Review
64 pages from 1902 to 1903
North Dakota State Journal
2,252 pages from 1903 to 1907
North Dakota Volunteer
16 pages in 1899
North Dakota Workman
8 pages in 1896
Park River Republican And Adams Enterprise
16 pages in 1908
Pierce County Post
16 pages in 1907
Ramsey County Courier
80 pages from 1902 to 1903
Steele County Progress
96 pages from 1898 to 1901
Stutsman County Pioneer
1,412 pages from 1935 to 1937
Sykeston News
16,310 pages from 1901 to 1942
Sykeston Tribune
8,544 pages from 1905 to 1915
The Barlow Enterprise
2,448 pages from 1907 to 1910
The Burlington Reporter
8 pages in 1886
The Carrington News
444 pages from 1886 to 1889
The Carrington Record
16,878 pages from 1901 to 1921
The Cathay Bee
16 pages in 1901
The Citizen
144 pages in 1892
The Daily Courier
96 pages from 1898 to 1899
The Donnybrook Mirror
112 pages in 1903
The Energy Sun
8 pages in 1912
The Fessenden Advertiser
44 pages from 1898 to 1899
The Foster County Independent
125,178 pages from 1914 to 2000
The Free Press
1,974 pages from 1905 to 1908
The Glenburn News
16 pages in 1946
The Grace City Gazette
1,650 pages from 1916 to 1920
The Grace City Journal
814 pages from 1914 to 1915
The Graphic
12 pages in 1893
The Harvey Advertiser
8 pages in 1896
The Harvey Herald
8 pages in 1901
The Independent Dakotan
8 pages in 1908
The Kensal Journal And North Dakota State Journal
1,740 pages from 1908 to 1911
The Kensal Progress
7,716 pages from 1919 to 1929
The Kensal Times
8,380 pages from 1931 to 1942
The Langdon Times
16 pages in 1899
The Maddock Standard
992 pages from 1915 to 1916
The Magic City Sun
56 pages in 1979
The McHenry Tribune
11,534 pages from 1905 to 1929
The Minot Journal
16 pages in 1891
The Minot Optic
116 pages in 1903
The New Rockford State Center
12 pages in 1917
The North Dakota Presbyter
8 pages in 1889
The Park River News
24 pages from 1898 to 1899
The Pettibone Spectator
30 pages from 1919 to 1920
The Progressive Democrat
76 pages in 1934
The Sheyenne Blizzard
8 pages in 1907
The Socialist Advocate
8 pages in 1912
The Weekly X-Rays
40 pages from 1898 to 1899
The Wells County News
132 pages in 1915
The Williams County Press
4 pages in 1898
The Williston Tribune
64 pages in 1891
The Woodworth Rustler
18,446 pages from 1912 to 1935
Traill County Times
148 pages from 1885 to 1903
Ward County Reporter
16 pages in 1891
Wells County Gazette
16 pages in 1891
Williams County Banner
8 pages in 1891
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About the Archive
About The Carrington City Library’s History Archives
Explore the Carrington City Library ’s digital archives, made available through a partnership with Advantage Archives . These archives provide free access to historical newspapers, preserving the history of Carrington and the surrounding area. The archives are a valuable resource for local history enthusiasts, genealogists, and researchers.
About the Library
About The Carrington City Library
The Carrington City Library serves the people of Foster County and beyond by providing free access to a variety of information and resources. The library not only fosters a love for reading but also preserves the history of the region through its historical archives and services. By offering a diverse range of materials, programs, and services, the library aims to enrich the lives of its patrons and promote lifelong learning.
Partner Story
Friends of the Library
Everyone can be a friend of the library. We always need volunteers, advocates, and supporters. Friends of the library help manage the Book Sale room, provide treats for special events, conduct spring cleaning, and support the library in various other ways, both through volunteering and financially.
More ways to explore and share local history
Research Guidance
Look for the story behind a result
The history of Carrington includes individual lives as well as events remembered by the wider community. In the digital archive shared by the Carrington City Library, begin with a name, place or date connected with the story you want to explore. When using historical newspapers, try alternate spellings and nearby dates, then read the surrounding page to place a local story in its time. Compare later reporting or another available title to explore different perspectives rather than treating one account as the whole story. Search a person, place, or event with a second term, then compare the date and context of each result. A repeated name needs more evidence before it identifies the same person or connects two parts of a story.
After recording the issue and page, search a second term tied to the result and compare the surrounding dates and accounts. Keep matching names provisional until the place and context fit. This can turn one result into a better question without turning a repeated name into a confirmed story.
Capture the title, date, and page or item location for a detail you may want to revisit. Label your interpretation as your reading, not the source's own words. Keep enough context with the note that another reader can retrace it.
Community Partnership
Keeping local history a community resource
This community archive is made possible by the collaboration of the Carrington City Library, its community, and Advantage Archives. Together, these partnerships preserve local sources and give people a way to explore, learn from, and share the history around them.
Advantage Archives covers ongoing archive hosting, storage, development, and maintenance. The institution and its community do not pay a subscription, seat license, annual support contract, or other recurring archive-service charge. Local history remains a community resource, not a subscription to maintain.
Would you like to see more of your community's history preserved and accessible? Start a conversation with your library, newspaper publisher, historical or genealogical society, museum, or school about the materials they would like to share and a possible partnership with Advantage Archives.
Learn about partnerships
Stories, research tips, and archive news
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