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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Five Points 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 Five Points. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Five Points. Our list contains 85 papers that were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of Five Points.

To keep this list from growing too long, not all of the papers have been listed. We have another list where all the papers have been listed in alphabetical order. The complete list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Five Points.  

Newspapers Neighboring Five Points ...

The following newspapers were published within 12 miles [19.3 km] of Five Points.

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

  • Published In Gray  ...
    • The Headlight (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 Headlight
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN89053070
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 19617286
    • The Jones County News (from 1895)
  • Published In Macon [Bibb County] ...
    • We know of 85 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Macon. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Macon
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of Five Points. This extended list includes all the papers from Macon. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Five Points

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Five Points) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Five Points. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.0196, Longitude: -83.6571       In this case, the coordinates for Five Points have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).