"Containing the freshest Advices, Foreign and Domestick"

(Wikipedia) - The Virginia Gazette was the first to be published in the area south of the Potomac River in the colonial period of the United States. William Parks published the first four-page edition on August 6, 1736.
Three years earlier, he had founded The Maryland Gazette in Annapolis. In 1743, Parks built a paper mill in Williamsburg. He purchased the raw material to create newsprint from Benjamin Franklin. Continued

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