Clinch Valley News

Established in 1869 in the small town of Jeffersonville (now Tazewell) in southwest Virginia, the four-page weekly was first edited by Dr. Henry F. Peery and James C. Nutty. Peery brought rough-and-tumble experience to the job. Twenty-two years earlier, he had printed the Jeffersonville Democrat and later the Southwestern Advocate. Both papers had staunchly supported the Democratic Party as did the new Clinch Valley News. After Peery's death in 1872, a series of editors retained much of the same political flavor. Together, the succession of the above three titles would serve as one of Virginia's oldest continuously published weekly newspapers.