Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Allentown.
Our newspaper information for Allentown is based on data taken from the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.
The following list contains the names of 74 papers that were published in the immediate area of Allentown. In addition, the list contains another 486 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Allentown. In total, we've identified 560 papers within 6 miles [9.7 km]<1> of Allentown.
To keep this list from growing too long, not all of the papers have been listed. We have another list where all the papers have been listed in alphabetical order. The complete list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Allentown.
Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is very large and will take extra time to load.
Newspapers Published In Allentown ...
We know of 74 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Allentown:
- Allentown Chronicle And News And Evening Item (from 1921)
- Allentown Democrat And Lehigh Valley Advertiser (from 1857)
- Allentown Democrat (from 1847)
- Allentown Evening Item (from 1915)
- Allentown Friedens-Bote (from 1847)
- Allentown Record (from 1921)
- Allentown Sunday Caldron (from 1917)
- Allentown Times (from 1937)
- Allentown Times (from 1932)
- Ambulance Service News (from 1917)
- Chronicle And News And Evening Item (from 1923)
- Chronicle And News (from 1877)
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- Chronicle And News (from 1936)
- Chronicle And News (from 1896)
- Daily Chronicle And News (from 1883)
- Daily Chronicle And News (from 1875)
- Daily News-Digest (from 1948)
- Das Vaterland (from 1874)
- Der Friedens=bote Und Lecha, Northampton, Bucks, Berks Und Montgomery Caunties Anzeiger (from 1840)
- Der Lecha Caunty Patriot (from 1859)
- Der Lecha Patriot (from 1848)
- Evening Chronicle (from 1939)
- Evening Telegram (from 1882)
- First World News (from 1993)
- Hakol (from 1976)
- Years of publication: 1976 to current
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Hakol
- Holdings for: LCCN SN89077141
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 19249091
- Harrisonian Of Lehigh (from 1840)
- Herold Und Zeitschrift (from 1880)
- Jugend Freund Und Christen-Bote (from 1853)
- Lecha Bote (from 187?)
- Lehigh Bulletin (from 1837)
- Lehigh Journal And Northampton And Lehigh Counties Advertiser (from 1838)
- Lehigh Reporter And Northampton, Bucks, Montgomery, Berks, Schuylkill And Carbon Counties Advertiser (from 1846)
- Lehigh Republican (from 1825)
- Lehigh Republican (from 1890)
- Lehigh Valley Daily News (from 1865)
- Lehigh Valley Review (from 1908)
- Lehigh Valley Times-Telegram (from 1933)
- Lutherische Zeitschrift (from 18??)
- Lutherisches Zeitschrift Jugenfreund, Kirchen-und Missionberichte (from 1867)
- Morning Call (from 1895)
- Morning Critic (from 1894)
- Morning Herald (from 1873)
- National Educator (from 18??)
- Pennsylvania Labor Herald (from 1913)
- Pennsylvania Labor Herald (from 1913)
- Stadt=und Land=Bote (from 1868)
- The Allentown Critic (from 1884)
- The Allentown Daily Herald (from 1877)
- The Allentown Daily Leader (from 1893)
- The Allentown Democrat (from 1859)
- The Allentown Leader (from 1903)
- The Allentown Morning Call And Morning Herald (from 1920)
- The Allentown Morning Call (from 1921)
- The Allentown Morning Call (from 1898)
- The Allentown Morning Herald (from 1919)
- The Allentown Press (from 1926)
- The Beacon (from 19??)
- The Bugle (from 1876)
- The Critic (from 1883)
- The Critic (from 1889)
- The Critic (from 1883)
- The Daily Chronicle (from 1870)
- The Daily City Item (from 1878)
- The Evening Dispatch (from 1866)
- The Lehigh Democrat (from 1843)
- The Lehigh Register (from 1846)
- The Lehigh Republican And Mauch Chunk, Farmers' & Mechanicks' Register (from 1826)
- The Little Stick Of Lehigh Valley (from 1931)
- The Morning Call (from 1939)
- The Sunday Critic (from 1888)
- Times Herald (from 19??)
- Tugend Der Freund (from 18??)
- Welt Bote (from 1854)
- Zeichen Der Zeit (from 1856)
Newspapers Neighboring Allentown ...
The following newspapers were published within 6 miles [9.7 km]<1> of Allentown.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Allentown.
- Published In Pittsburgh ...
- We know of 434 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Pittsburgh. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Pittsburgh
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 6 miles [9.7 km]<1> of Allentown. This extended list includes all the papers from Pittsburgh. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Allentown.
Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is very large and will take extra time to load
- Published In Dormont ...
- South Hills Dispatch (from 1930)
- Published In Crafton ...
- Chartiers Valley Mirror (from 1894)
- The Chartiers Valley And West End Life (from 1936)
- Published In Carnegie ...
- The Carnegie Item (from 1894)
- The Carnegie Signal-Item (from 1908)
- The Carnegie Union (from 1894)
- Published In Homestead ...
- Chartiers Valley Times (from 1978)
- Daily Local News (from 1884)
- Daily Messenger (from 1971)
- Greek Catholic Union Messenger = Viestnik Greko Kaft Sojedinenija (from 1952)
- Homestead Daily Messenger (from 18??)
- Homestead Daily News (from 1897)
- Homestead News-Messenger (from 1898)
- Homestead News (from 1884)
- Homestead Times (from 1881)
- News Messenger
- The first year of publication is unknown, with the last issue in current
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the News Messenger
- Holdings for: LCCN SN84007787
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 10551985
- Suburban Daily Messenger (from 1971)
- The Daily Messenger (from 1907)
- The Daily Messenger (from 1932)
- The Eastern Observer (from 1942)
- The Homestead Eagle (from 1888)
- The Homestead Herald (from 1880)
- The Homestead News (from 1893)
- The Local News (from 1884)
- The Messenger (from 1921)
- The Mirror (from 1881)
- The New Daily Messenger (from 1967)
- The News-Messenger (from 1899)
- Weekly Messenger (from 1979)
- Published In McKees Rocks ...
- McKees Rocks Gazette (from 1892)
- McKees Rocks Leader (from 1905)
- McKees Rocks' Magical Sceptre (from 19??)
- Sto-Rox News (from 1977)
- Suburban Gazette (from 19??)
- Suburban South-West Pittsburgh Gazette (from 19??)
- The Independent (from 1897)
- Published In Mount Lebanon ...
- Mt. Lebanon Times (from 1927)
- Published In Munhall ...
- The Valley Mirror (from 1981)
- Published In Wilkinsburg ...
- The Enterprise (from 1896)
- The Gazette (from 1940)
- The Gazette (from 1967)
- The Independent (from 18??)
- The Rattlesnake (from 1859)
- The first year of publication was in 1859, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Rattlesnake
- Holdings for: LCCN SN85054825
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 12729733
- The Sentinel (from 1966)
- The Wilkinsburg Call (from 1887)
- The Wilkinsburg Gazette (from 1933)
- The Wilkinsburg Progress (from 1921)
- The Wilkinsburg Review (from 19??)
- The Wilkinsburg Sentinel The Wilkinsburg Call (from 1918)
- The Wilkinsburg Sentinel-Call (from 1919)
- The Wilkinsburg Sentinel (from 1915)
- The Wilkinsburg Sentinel (from 1919)
Off-the-Road Links ...
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The official website for Allegheny County: www.county.allegheny.pa.us/
The official website for State of Pennsylvania: https://www.pa.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Allentown) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Allentown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.4208, Longitude: -79.9947 |