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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Long Island.

Our newspaper information for Long Island 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 Long Island. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Long Island. Our list contains 29 papers that were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> of Long Island.

Newspapers Neighboring Long Island ...

The following newspapers were published within 16 miles [25.7 km] of Long Island.

The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Long Island.

  • Published In Bridgeport  ...
    • Camp Illuminator (from 1864)
    • The Bridgeport News-Herald (from 192?)
    • The Exposer (from 1896)
      • The first year of publication was in 1896, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Exposer
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN2001062231
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 46679992
  • Published In South Pittsburg [Marion County] ...
  • Published In Jasper [Marion County] ...
  • Published In Stevenson  ...
  • Published In Sequatchie [Marion County] ...
  • Published In Trenton [Dade County] ...
  • Published In Rising Fawn [Dade County] ...

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Long Island) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Long Island. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.9737, Longitude: -85.6712       In this case, the coordinates for Long Island have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).