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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Bessie 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 Bessie. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Bessie. Our list contains 45 papers that were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> of Bessie.

Newspapers Neighboring Bessie ...

The following newspapers were published within 20 miles [32.2 km] of Bessie.

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

  • Published In Washington  ...
  • Published In Crawfordville [Taliaferro County] ...
  • Published In Lincolnton [Lincoln County] ...
    • Lincoln Journal (from 19??)
    • The Lincoln Home Journal (from 189?)
    • The Lincolnton News (from 1882)
  • Published In Elberton [Elbert County] ...
  • Published In Union Point [Greene County] ...
    • The Weekly Bee (from 1889)
      • The first year of publication was in 1889, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Weekly Bee
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN89053156
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 19639221
    • The Weekly Review (from 1897)

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 from Point A (ie- Bessie) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bessie. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.8148, Longitude: -82.8110       In this case, the coordinates for Bessie have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).