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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Mountaintown 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 Mountaintown. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Mountaintown. Our list contains 24 papers that were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<1> of Mountaintown.

Newspapers Neighboring Mountaintown ...

The following newspapers were published within 19 miles [30.6 km] of Mountaintown.

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

  • Published In Ellijay  ...
  • Published In Chatsworth [Murray County] ...
    • Chatsworth Times (from 1913)
    • The Murray Herald (from 1935)
  • Published In Eton [Murray County] ...
  • 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 Blue Ridge [Fannin County] ...
  • Published In McCaysville [Fannin 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 Copperhill [Polk County] ...

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Mountaintown) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Mountaintown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.7556, Longitude: -84.5602       In this case, the coordinates for Mountaintown have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).