RoadsideThoughts
A Gazetteer for the United States and Canada
Home >> State of Georgia >> Gilmer County >> Ellijay >> Local NewspapersIndex...

Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Ellijay 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 5 papers that were published in the immediate area of Ellijay. In addition, the list contains another 22 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Ellijay. In total, we've identified 27 papers within 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> of Ellijay.

Newspapers Published In Ellijay ...

We know of 5 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Ellijay:

Newspapers Neighboring Ellijay ...

The following newspapers were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> of Ellijay.

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

  • Published In Blue Ridge [Fannin County] ...
  • Published In Jasper [Pickens County] ...
    • Jasper News (from 1885)
    • Mountain Boys (from 1884)
    • Pickens County Progress (from 1899)
    • The Pickens County Herald (from 1887)
    • The Piedmont Republican (from 1890)
    • The Republican (from 1893)
      • The first year of publication was in 1893, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Republican
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN89053219
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 19602673
  • Published In Chatsworth [Murray County] ...
    • Chatsworth Times (from 1913)
    • The Murray Herald (from 1935)
  • Published In Eton [Murray County] ...
  • 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 Spring Place [Murray County] ...
    • Murray County Gazette (from 187?)
    • North Georgia Times (from 1879)
    • Spring Place Jimplecute (from 1891)
    • The Murray News (from 1896)
  • Published In McCaysville [Fannin County] ...

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Ellijay) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ellijay. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.6953, Longitude: -84.4828