Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Blairsville.
Our newspaper information for Blairsville is based on data taken from the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.
The following list contains the names of 8 papers that were published in the immediate area of Blairsville. In addition, the list contains another 23 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Blairsville. In total, we've identified 31 papers within 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> of Blairsville.
Newspapers Published In Blairsville ...
We know of 8 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Blairsville:
- Blairsville Free Press (from 1896)
- Northeast Georgian (from 1907)
- The Blairsville Herald (from 1892)
- The Georgia Democrat (from 1937)
- The Mountaineer (from 1958)
- The North Georgia News (from 1909)
- Union County Banner (from 1903)
- Union County Citizen (from 1940)
Newspapers Neighboring Blairsville ...
The following newspapers were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> of Blairsville.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Blairsville.
- Published In Young Harris [Towns County] ...
- The Young Harris News (from 18??)
- Published In Hiawassee [Towns County] ...
- Mountain News (from 1975)
- The Georgia Mountain News (from 1975)
- Towns County Herald (from 1928)
- Published In Hayesville [Clay County] ...
- Clay County Courier (from 1902)
- Clay County Progress (from 1951)
- Clay County Progress (from 1980)
- Mountain Home Companion (from 1987)
- The Clay County News (from 1926)
- Published In Murphy [Cherokee County] ...
- Cherokee Herald (from 1873)
- Cherokee Scout (from 188?)
- Murphy Bulletin (from 1885)
- The Cherokee Scout And Clay County Progress (from 1961)
- The Cherokee Scout (from 1980)
- The Murphy Advance (from 1888)
- Published In Morganton [Fannin County] ...
- Morganton News (from 1891)
- The first year of publication was in 1891, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Morganton News
- Holdings for: LCCN SN90052058
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 21921322
- Published In Blue Ridge [Fannin County] ...
- Fannin County Times (from 1931)
- News Observer (from 1990)
- Southern World (from 1889)
- The Blue Ridge Post (from 18??)
- The Blue Ridge Summit-Post (from 191?)
- The News-Herald (from 1973)
- The Observer (from 19??)
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- Blairsville) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Blairsville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.8763, Longitude: -83.9581 |