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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Brighton 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 Brighton. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Brighton. Our list contains 31 papers that were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<1> of Brighton.

Newspapers Neighboring Brighton ...

The following newspapers were published within 29 miles [46.7 km] of Brighton.

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

  • Published In Irwinville [Irwin County] ...
  • Published In Ocilla [Irwin County] ...
    • Ocilla Dispatch (from 1899)
    • The Dispatch (from 1896)
    • The Ocilla Star (from 190?)
  • Published In Omega  ...
    • Omega News (from 1939)
  • Published In Alapaha [Berrien County] ...
    • Berrien County News (from 1875)
    • Georgia Forester (from 1874)
  • Published In Sumner [Worth County] ...
  • Published In Ashburn [Turner County] ...
  • Published In Sylvester [Worth County] ...
  • Published In Isabella [Worth County] ...
    • The Worth County News (from 1900)
    • The Worth Star (from 1881)
      • The first year of publication was in 1881, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Worth Star
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN89053490
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 20157095
  • Published In Nashville [Berrien County] ...
  • Published In Adel [Cook County] ...
  • Published In Doerun [Colquitt County] ...
  • Published In Moultrie [Colquitt County] ...

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 from Point A (ie- Brighton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Brighton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.5027, Longitude: -83.4560       In this case, the coordinates for Brighton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).