The Robesonian was established as a weekly newspaper in February 1870 by W.S. McDiamid, a Baptist preacher.

The first home of The Robesonian was a one-story brick building on Water Street, between Third and Fourth Streets, in Lumberton. The newspaper moved to several locations during those early years, finally resting for a spell at another downtown location at 121 W. Fifth St. in 1924, a brick building that was expanded in 1952 and renovated in 1979. After 81 years on W. Fifth, the newspaper operation moved to its current home at 2175 N. Roberts Ave. in late 2005. The Roberts Avenue location becomes the eighth for the business. The Robesonian publishes seven days a week, with a circulation of about 14,000. Heartland Publications, LLC, which owns The Robesonian, also owns two weekly newspapers in Robeson County - the Red Springs Citizen and the St. Pauls Review. All three newspapers, and the Bladen Journal, a twice-weekly newspaper in Bladen County that is also owned by the Heartland corporation, are published on The Robesonian’s 10-unit Goss Community Press. The Robesonian’s previous home on W. Fifth is now just a memory - a vacant lot is all that remains after the aging brick structure was demolished in 2007.Published Monday through Friday afternoons and Saturday & Sunday mornings by Heartland Publications, LLC, of Lumberton, North Carolina, at 2175 N. Roberts Avenue, Lumberton, North Carolina 28359. Phone (910) 739-4322. Fax (910) 739-6553.