Local Newspapers for the Root Cemetery ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of the Root Cemetery.
Our newspaper information for the Root Cemetery is based on data supplied by the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.
Hint: When we started searching newspapers, we only looked for obituaries. Eventually we realized that our search was too narrow and there was much that we were missing. Now we include things like around-the-town and gossip columns, birth and death announcements.
We have some family members who owned businesses and now we search for articles and advertistments for those businesses. Some family members could have been better behaved and a search of police blotters contained some surprises.
The following newspapers were published within 8 miles [12.9 km]<1> of the Root Cemetery. These papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in the order of their distance from the Root Cemetery.
- Published In North Canaan
- Published In Falls Village
- Connecticut Western (from Falls Village Item)
- The Western (from Housatonic Republican)
- Years of publication: Housatonic Republican to 1862
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Western
- Holdings for: LCCN SN92051149
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 25235590
- Falls Village Item (from The County Advertiser)
- Housatonic Republican (from The Independent)
- Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Falls Village.
- Published In Norfolk
- Connecticut Western (from Norfork Daily Prune)
- The Western (from The Chimes)
- Falls Village Item (from The Chimes)
- Housatonic Republican (from The Norfolk Chimes)
- The County Advertiser (from The Norfolk Chimes)
- The Independent (from The Norfolk Tower)
- Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Norfolk.
- Published In Salisbury
- Published In Lakeville
- Published In West Cornwall
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 drawn from Point A (ie- ) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point at the Root Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.9737, Longitude: -73.2765 In this case, the coordinates for the Root Cemetery have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |