Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Jackson.
Our newspaper information for Jackson 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 7 papers that were published in the immediate area of Jackson. In addition, the list contains another 49 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Jackson. In total, we've identified 56 papers within 19 miles [30.6 km]<1> of Jackson.
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 Jackson.
Newspapers Published In Jackson ...
We know of 7 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Jackson:
- Butts County Argus (from 18??)
- The Butts County Progress (from 18??)
- The Jackson Argus (from 189?)
- The Jackson News (from 1881)
- The Jackson Progress-Argus (from 1915)
- The Jackson Record (from 18??)
- The Jacksonian (from 1907)
Newspapers Neighboring Jackson ...
The following newspapers were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<1> of Jackson.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Jackson.
- Published In Flovilla ...
- Co=Operative Workman (from 18??)
- Headlight=Homeseeker (from 18??)
- National Headlight (from 189?)
- The Flovilla And Indian Springs Enterprise (from 189?)
- Published In McDonough [Henry County] ...
- Henry County Herald (from 19??)
- Henry County Weekly And Henry County Times (from 1891)
- The Henry County Weekly (from 18??)
- The Henry Herald (from 1987)
- The Weekly-Advertiser (from 1939)
- Published In Monticello [Jasper County] ...
- Jasper County Banner (from 1875)
- The Jasper County News (from 1882)
- The Monticello News (from 1903)
- Published In Griffin [Spalding County] ...
- We know of 31 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Griffin. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Griffin
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 19 miles [30.6 km]<1> of Jackson. This extended list includes all the papers from Griffin. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Jackson
- Published In Forsyth [Monroe County] ...
- Educational Journal (from 1857)
- The Bee (from 1848)
- The first year of publication was in 1848, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Bee
- Holdings for: LCCN SN89053376
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 19873603
- The Little Georgian (from 184?)
- The Monroe Advertiser (from 1856)
- The Monroe Advertiser (from 1985)
- The Monroe County Reporter (from 1972)
- Published In Barnesville [Lamar County] ...
- The Barnesville Gazette (from 187?)
- The Barnesville Herald And News Gazette (from 1980)
- The Barnesville News-Gazette (from 189?)
- The Barnesville Patriot (from 187?)
- The Barnesville Weekly Gazette (from 186?)
- The Daily Gazette (from 188?)
- The Herald-Gazette (from 1981)
- The News-Gazette (from 1941)
- The Orthodox Democrat (from 1885)
- The Pike County News (from 1880)
- The Weekly Gazette (from 1868)
- Published In Hampton [Henry County] ...
- Henry County Ledger (from 187?)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Jackson) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Jackson. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.2944, Longitude: -83.9665 |