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Local Newspapers for the Oakland Cemetery ...

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

Our newspaper information for the Oakland 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 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> of the Oakland 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 Oakland Cemetery.

  • Published In Auburndale
  • Published In Highland City
  • Published In Bartow
    • Canada 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 Canada News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN95026924
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 32933551
    • The Auburndale Star (from Courier-Informant)
    • Highlands Press (from Daily Courier-Informant)
      • Years of publication:  Daily Courier-Informant to 1898
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Highlands Press
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN95026925
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 1556693
    • The Highland City Post (from Polk County Record)
    • Bartow Advance Courier (from The Bartow Informant)
    • Courier-Informant (from The Cadet Couranto)
    • Daily Courier-Informant (from The Polk County Democrat)
    • Polk County Record (from The Polk County Democrat)
    • The Bartow Informant (from The Polk County News)
      • The first year of publication was in The Polk County News, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Bartow Informant
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN95026935
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 32934412
    • The Cadet Couranto (from Weekly No-fence Bulletin)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Bartow.
  • Published In Haines City

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

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

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 obstructions 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 Oakland Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 28.0088, Longitude: -81.7337    









 

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