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Williamsport, Pennsylvania 17703-0266. United States. Website. sungazette.com. The Williamsport Sun-Gazette is published in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in Lycoming County. Its earliest antecedents date to 1801. As of January 1, 2016, the daily circulation of the paper was listed as 19,000 daily Monday–Saturday, with a Sunday circulation of ...
History of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Williamsport was incorporated as a borough on March 1, 1806, and as a city on January 15, 1866. The city is the original home of Little League Baseball, founded in 1939 as a three-team league. In the late 19th century, when Williamsport was known as "The Lumber Capital of the World" because of its thriving ...
Grit is a magazine, formerly a weekly newspaper, popular in the rural U.S. during much of the 20th century. It carried the subtitle "America's Greatest Family Newspaper". In the early 1930s, it targeted small town and rural families with 14 pages plus a fiction supplement. By 1932, it had a circulation of 425,000 in 48 states, and 83% of its ...
The French established the first newspaper in Africa in Mauritius in 1773. First newspaper in Mauritius. Published weekly from 1773-01-13 to at least 1790 by Nicolas Lambert in Mauritius. First newspaper in South Africa. Published weekly from 1800-08-16 to at least 1829 by the British Government in South Africa.
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Williamsport is a city in and the county seat of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, United States. [7] As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 27,754. It is the principal city of the Williamsport Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of about 114,000. Williamsport is the larger principal city of the Williamsport- Lock Haven ...
Peter Herdic. Peter Herdic (1824–1888) was a lumber baron, entrepreneur, inventor, politician, and philanthropist in Victorian era Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. He was the youngest of seven children born to Henry and Elizabeth Herdic on December 14, 1824, in Fort Plain, New York. [1]
The Pennsylvania Gazette was one of the United States ' most prominent newspapers from 1728 until 1800. In the years leading up to the American Revolution, the newspaper served as a voice for colonial opposition to British colonial rule, especially to the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts. The newspaper was headquartered in Philadelphia.