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| The Harrismith Chronicle Archives | ||
| Welcome to The Harrismith Chronicle Archives section. Harrismith.co aims to provide the community of Harrismith with a vast online archive of the local town newspapers’ since 1862. This vast undertaking would be the first of it’s kind for a small town. The Chronicle News can be contacted by emailing them at chronicle@harrismith.co.
The History of the Harrismith Chronicle can be read in detail in the booklet available here. The first local newspaper, Harrismith Times, made its debut in September of 1862. The whole paper was written by hand. News simply had to be passed on. It was between 1882 and September of 1883 that the Harrismith Chronicle briefly made its’ appearance under that name to the community and wider Freestate. The Harrismith Chronicle was renamed to “Free State Chronicle” because of its much wider distributed reader base between November 1883 until November of the following year. Harrismith Chronicle continued to change its name, this time to “The Advertiser” during December 1884. The last edition of “The Advertiser” appeared on Thursday, 29 October, 1885. During 1889 up to 1892, the newspaper was published under the name “Free State Northern Post and it wasn’t until 1898 that the newspaper reappeared to the community. This time under the name “Harrismith News”. The last edition was 25 October 1901. Harrismith Chronicle has a long history of dedicated journalists, reliable reporting and the production of quality newspapers. The paper celebrated it’s centenary in 2003, and still going strong in 2011. |
 The original stucture was demolished and a much larger Town Hall was built (completed in 1908) near the site of the original one. The view is across the Deborah Retief Gardens. The monument on the right is to the memory of 201 soldiers of the 2nd Bn Grenadier Guards and 2nd Bn Scots guards who died in the Anglo-Boer War. |
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 Within a week of the British occupation, railway communication between Harrismith and Ladysmith was re-established after having been severed for ten months. From then on all the supplies needed for the troops in Harrismith were obtained from Natal.
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