RichmondRegister.com Contains local news, weather, sports, obituaries Richmond

Rating: 0 - 0 votes

Company Logo

Company Name

Company Contact

Website Analysis

Domain Whois

WHOIS information for RichmondRegister.com

Powered by who.is

Page Type

This page is about a company.

Title

The Richmond Register - Homepage

Description

The city's first paper was The Globe Register, which was first published Nov. 2, 1809, by Dr. Thomas White Ruble, a Virginian who came to Richmond in 1805. Ruble owned the paper for a year before selling to John A. Grimes, who changed the name to The Luminary.

The paper was sold to Joe Turner in 1816, who in 1822 changed the name to The Farmer's Chronicle. Competition came also in 1822 for the Chronicle. The Richmond Republican started publication as well as The People's Press, which started in 1827. The Chronicle was sold again in 1929; Col. William Neale bought it from Turner for $1,000. In 1845, editor Thomas I. Goddin changed the name from The Farmer's Chronicle to The Whig Chronicle, which found competition from 1847 to 1859 from The Plowboy.

J.M. Shackleford and S.V. Rowland were proprietors in 1852 and again the name of the paper was changed; this time to The Weekly Messenger.