Type | Monday and Thursday |
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Owner(s) | Community Newspaper Holdings |
Founded | 1915 |
Headquarters | 417 Main Street, Oak Hill, WV 25901 |
Circulation | 1,093 (as of 2016)[1] |
Website | fayettetribune |
The Fayette Tribune is a newspaper serving Oak Hill, West Virginia, and surrounding Fayette County.[2] Published Monday and Thursday, it has a circulation of 1,093 and is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings.[3]
In 1915, Charles A. Goddard acquired the Fayette Tribune and Free Press,[4] a name simplified to the Fayette Tribune in 1924.[5] In 1930 the Tribune was sold to the Woodyard brothers, who also purchased the Fayette Democrat.[4]
The Fayette Tribune was the first newspaper to call attention to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster,[6] a large scale incident of occupational silicosis, considered to be one of the worst industrial tragedies in the history of the United States.[7] Reporting in February 1931 the paper broke the story:
The mining continued, however, resulting in an estimated 476 deaths before construction halted.[8]