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Richmond County Daily Journal

newspaper published in Rockingham, NC, US

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ85797201 ↗
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The Richmond County Daily Journal is an American, English language newspaper published in Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina. The paper is published bi-weekly, on Wednesday and Saturday. The predecessor of this paper is the Richmond County Journal (1931–1966). The newspaper is a member of the North Carolina Press Association.

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“Richmond County Daily Journal” enters the record as newspaper published in Rockingham, NC, US. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Richmond, County and Daily can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Richmond County Daily Journal” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.