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\"\"<\/a>Local papers have brought up-to-date information to residents of Havre de Grace since the early 1800s.\u00a0But on that day in May 1813 when the British\u00a0stormed into the fishing village, almost completely destroying it, there wasn\u2019t a local weekly to tell people about one of the biggest stories in the annals of the town\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

As buildings smoldered and shocked residents started cleaning up the devastated place, readers around the nation turned to city papers out of Baltimore, Philadelphia, and elsewhere to see the headline grabbing intelligence.\u00a0 Those urban broadsheets, snatching all the reporting they could from letter writers, stage-coach drivers, militia officers, and other eyewitnesses, told subscribers about the outrageous warfare that came to the one small community on the Chesapeake Bay.\u00a0 Those journals, often called the first draft of history, captured the alarming story as word spread slowly throughout an apprehensive region.<\/p>\n

But in the town another five years passed quickly by before citizens had a local source printing news.\u00a0 Beginning in 1818, editor William Coale kicked off a long tradition of local broadsheets with the Bond of Union, recording the goings on, the adventures and events, and the details of life on ink and paper.\u00a0 In 1820 the publisher moved the operation to Bel Air, according to the Library of Congress.<\/p>\n

As papers concentrating on the attractively situated village started publishing it was a point in time when people still recalled those frightful memories.\u00a0 It was just as if it was yesterday that they\u2019d lived through the harrowing assault by redcoats.\u00a0 So the adventures, events, actions, and dangers of that unforgettable Sunday came up periodically in remembrances, on anniversary dates, and when aging defenders passed away.\u00a0 Plus those old papers are full of advertisements for business, real estate and much more offering insights into that era from long ago.<\/p>\n

Two decades later old-timers still eagerly shared first-hand accounts when the Susquehanna Advocate started publishing in 1839.\u00a0 As the 19th<\/sup> century moved along, the municipality had papers such as the Madisonian and Harford County Weekly Advertiser, Harford County Times, , Democratic Ledger, Havre de Grace Republican, Independent Press, Electric Light, and more, according to the Library of Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In constructing the annals of these times, the War of 1812: Havre de Grace Under Fire committee I’ve been overseeing the process<\/a> of delving into these and other old newspapers, conducting research and culling insights from fascinating sources.\u00a0 Project volunteers\u00a0have spent untold hours at microfilm readers staring at the aging old film as well as rummaging through issues filed deeply away in special repositories.<\/p>\n

The researchers also used the products of city publishers to glean the happenings that dangerous spring nearly 200 years ago.\u00a0 While much of that undertaking called for using microfilm, there is a revolution going on with newspaper research, involving the digitization of newspapers.\u00a0 Lots of data are now just keystrokes away and valuable information describing the attack and the damage was found.\u00a0 In this area, many of the major papers from populated centers are now available online.<\/p>\n

Those old newspapers help tell the story of the time when warfare came to the Havre de Grace\u2019s shore as the committee chronicles and presents those days.\u00a0 Buried deeply inside the untold number of pages published through the 19th<\/sup> century are stories of the attack, defense, and damage; enemy relics of war uncovered a generation later; anniversary observances of the attack and bombardment;\u00a0 and the passage of old defenders.<\/p>\n

Newspapers, as journalists often say, are the first draft of history.\u00a0\u00a0 The preliminary accounts are rarely the final ones as editors and reporters face the challenge of gathering information during difficult wartime conditions while rushing to meet the printer\u2019s deadline.\u00a0 Nonetheless, these colorful and engaging sources provide a glimpse into another time as we triangulate new gleanings with other manuscripts.<\/p>\n

Nearly two hundred years later, the project has pulled out those dusty, untouched issues while also squinting to read microfilm and online digital content.\u00a0 Thank goodness those broadsheets were worth hanging onto and weren\u2019t crumpled up and tossed away the away like we generally do with our daily papers.<\/p>\n

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