Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Saint Simons Island.
Our newspaper information for Saint Simons Island 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 Saint Simons Island. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Saint Simons Island. Our list contains 46 papers that were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> of Saint Simons Island.
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 Saint Simons Island.
Newspapers Neighboring Saint Simons Island ...
The following newspapers were published within 15 miles [24.1 km] of Saint Simons Island.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Saint Simons Island.
- Published In Brunswick ...
- We know of 35 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Brunswick. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Brunswick
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> of Saint Simons Island. This extended list includes all the papers from Brunswick. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Saint Simons Island
- Published In Darien [McIntosh County] ...
- Darien Gazette (from 1818)
- Darien Phenix (from 1829)
- The first year of publication was in 1829, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Darien Phenix
- Holdings for: LCCN SN82015432
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 8808827
- Darien Timber Gazette (from 1874)
- McIntosh County News (from 1941)
- The Darien Gazette Combined With McIntosh County News (from 1943)
- The Darien Gazette (from 1933)
- The Darien Gazette (from 1893)
- The Darien News (from 1951)
- The Darien Spectator (from 1895)
- The McIntosh County Herald, And Darien Commercial Register (from 1839)
- The Telegraph (from 1833)
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- Saint Simons Island) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Saint Simons Island. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.1505, Longitude: -81.3695 In this case, the coordinates for Saint Simons Island have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |