Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Matilda.
Our newspaper information for Matilda 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 Matilda. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Matilda. Our list contains 50 papers that were published within 18 miles [29 km]<1> of Matilda.
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 Matilda.
Newspapers Neighboring Matilda ...
The following newspapers were published within 18 miles [29 km] of Matilda.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Matilda.
- 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 Matilda. 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 Matilda
- 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 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 LaFayette [Chambers County] ...
- Chambers County Democrat (from 188?)
- Southern Sentinel (from 185?)
- The Chambers Tribune (from 1849)
- The East-Alabamian (from 184?)
- The LaFayette Sun (from 1880)
- The Lafayette Clipper (from 1873)
- The People's Journal (from 18??)
- Tri-Counties News (from 1930)
- Published In Erie [Hale County] ...
- Greene County Gazette (from 1830)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Matilda) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Matilda. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.9682, Longitude: -85.6847 In this case, the coordinates for Matilda have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |