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Local Newspapers for the Mount Zion Cemetery ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of the Mt. Zion Cemetery.

Our newspaper information for the Mt. Zion 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 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> of the Mt. Zion 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 Mt. Zion Cemetery.

  • Published In Frostproof
  • Published In Fort Meade
  • Published In Avon Park   [Highlands County, FL]
  • Published In Bowling Green   [Hardee County, FL]
    • Highland News (from Bowling Green Exponent And The Bowling Green News)
      • Years of publication:  Bowling Green Exponent And The Bowling Green News to 194?
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Highland News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN95047241
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 33425213
    • The Frostproof News (from Bowling Green Exponent)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Bowling Green.
  • Published In Lake Wales
    • Highland News (from Daily Highlander)
    • The Frostproof News (from Lake Wales Highlander)
    • The Frostproof News (from Lake Wales Highlander)
    • Fort Meade Leader (from The Daily Highlander)
    • Bowling Green Exponent And The Bowling Green News (from The Highlander)
    • Bowling Green Exponent (from The Highlander)
    • Avon Park Sun (from The Highlander)
    • Highlands County Pilot (from The Lake Wales Daily)
    • The Scenic Highlands Sun (from The Lake Wales News)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Lake Wales.
  • Published In Bartow
    • Highland News (from Bartow Advance Courier)
      • Years of publication:  Bartow Advance Courier to 1888
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Highland News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN95026924
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 32933551
    • The Frostproof News (from Courier-Informant)
    • The Frostproof News (from Daily Courier-Informant)
    • Fort Meade Leader (from Polk County Record)
    • Bowling Green Exponent And The Bowling Green News (from The Bartow Informant)
    • Bowling Green Exponent (from The Cadet Couranto)
    • Avon Park Sun (from The Polk County Democrat)
      • Years of publication:  The Polk County Democrat to current
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Avon Park Sun
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN95047484
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 33886838
    • Highlands County Pilot (from The Polk County Democrat)
    • The Scenic Highlands Sun (from The Polk County News)
    • Daily Highlander (from Weekly No-fence Bulletin)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Bartow.
  • Published In Wauchula   [Hardee County, FL]
    • Highland News (from The Florida Advocate)
      • Years of publication:  The Florida Advocate to 1955
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Highland News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN96027137
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 1374619
    • The Frostproof News (from The Florida Advocate)
    • The Frostproof News (from The Herald-Advocate)
    • Fort Meade Leader (from The Herald-Advocate)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Wauchula.

The official website for Polk County: www.polk-county.net/

The official website for State of Florida: https://www.myflorida.com/

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 drawn from Point A (ie- ) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point at the Mt. Zion Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 27.7297, Longitude: -81.6376    









 

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