The ''Times Crescent'' is a newspaper that began publishing on May 26, 1893 and was published until 1966 as the Times Crescent and then was published as The Times Crescent Charles County Leaf until 1971.
La Plata
La Plata () is the capital city of Buenos Aires province, Argentina. According to the 2022 Argentina census, census, the La Plata Partido, Partido has a population of 772,618 and its metropolitan area, the Greater La Plata, has 938,287 inhabit ...
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Charles County, Maryland
Charles County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 166,617. The county seat is La Plata. The county was named for Charles Calvert (1637–1715), third Baron Baltimore. T ...
. Walter J. Mitchell, who later became a judge of the
Maryland Court of Appeals
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from 1934-1941, was the man responsible for merging the existing La Plata paper, the ''Crescent'', with the
Port Tobacco Times to form the ''Times Crescent'' in 1898. When Mitchell became a judge, his son James C. Mitchell took over operations for the ''Times Crescent'' and remained owner of the paper until his death in 1989. The newspaper went by the name ''Crescent'' from its inception until January 14, 1898, when it was renamed to ''The Times Crescent''. The paper ran under this name until March 24, 1966, when it was briefly changed to ''The Times-Crescent The Charles County Leaf''. On May 27, 1971, the paper returned to its previous name, but with a dash between the words: ''Times-Crescent''. Finally, in 1989, the ''Times'' underwent its final name change and became ''The Charles County Times-Crescent'', which is its name to this day.
Louis Metcalf Hyde was the printer-editor of the ''Times Crescent'' from 1898 through 1948. He had previously worked for the
Port Tobacco Times and became managing editor for the ''Times Crescent'' after it merged with and absorbed the ''Port Tobacco Times''.
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Newspapers published in Maryland
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Newspapers established in 1893
1893 establishments in Maryland