Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Benson.
Our newspaper information for Benson is based on data taken from the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.
We don't know of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Benson. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Benson. Our list contains 47 papers that were published within 18 miles [29 km]<1> of Benson.
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 Benson.
Newspapers Neighboring Benson ...
The following newspapers were published within 18 miles [29 km] of Benson.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Benson.
- Published In Erie [Hale County] ...
- Greene County Gazette (from 1830)
- Published In Dadeville ...
- We know of 27 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Dadeville. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Dadeville
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 18 miles [29 km]<1> of Benson. This extended list includes all the papers from Dadeville. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Benson
- Published In Alexander City ...
- Alexander City Chronicle And The Alexander City Outlook (from 1968)
- Alexander City News (from 1914)
- Southern American (from 190?)
- The Alexander City Citizen (from 1972)
- The Alexander City Outlook (from 1892)
- The Siftings (from 1910)
- The Vidette (from 1888)
- The first year of publication was in 1888, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Vidette
- Holdings for: LCCN SN86050030
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 13036895
- The Weekly Dispatch (from 1890)
- Published In Eclectic [Elmore County] ...
- The Eclectic Enterprise (from 1929)
- The Eclectic Observer (from 1990)
- The Elmore Banner (from 1902)
- Published In Camp Hill ...
- Camp Hill News (from 1907)
- Camp Hill Star (from 1924)
- The Camp Hill News (from 1949)
- The Camp Hill Times (from 1900)
- The Independent (from 189?)
- The Tallapoosa News (from 1914)
- Published In Notasulga [Macon County] ...
- The Notasulga Journal (from 1908)
- The Notasulga News (from 1930)
- The Notasulga Times (from 1976)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Benson) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Benson. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.7640, Longitude: -85.8768 In this case, the coordinates for Benson have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |