To date, this project has digitized and made searchable over 210,000 newspaper pages dating back to the nineteenth century, as well as over 2,000 photos of the Lost Villages.
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The front page of the SDG Newspaper and Photo Digitization Project. The website, which has a searchable database of county newspapers going back nearly 160 years, was launched on Monday, May 3, 2021. (SD&G/Zoom via Newswatch Group)
SD&G – Years of newsprint, ink and photographs in SD&G – some going back almost 160 years – are now accessible with the click of a mouse.
Local dignitaries, historians and politicians were on Zoom this morning (Monday) to launch the SDG Newspaper and Photo Digitization Project.
The SD&G online archives lead Eric Duncan told the audience the whole idea started in 2019 after getting the inspiration to preserve the history while going back through 50 years of the Winchester Press for a high school reunion.