Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Afton.
Our newspaper information for Afton 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 Afton. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Afton. Our list contains 116 papers that were published within 23 miles [37 km]<1> of Afton.
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 Afton.
Newspapers Neighboring Afton ...
The following newspapers were published within 23 miles [37 km] of Afton.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Afton.
- Published In Richmond ...
- Madison Gazette (from 18??)
- Madison Journal (from 1844)
- The Madison Democrat (from 1860)
- The Richmond Compiler (from 1841)
- Published In Tallulah ...
- Madison Times (from 1884)
- The first year of publication was in 1884, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card: Madison Times
- Holdings: LCCN SN88064405
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 17941343
- ISSN Number: 2166-7985
- The Madison Journal (from 1888)
- Published In Delta ...
- Madison Vindicator (from 1874)
- The Madison Journal (from 1870)
- Published In Grand Gulf [Claiborne County] ...
- Grand Gulf Advertiser (from 1834)
- Weekly Grand Gulf Advertiser (from 1839)
- Published In Vicksburg [Warren County] ...
- We know of 91 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Vicksburg. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Vicksburg
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 23 miles [37 km]<1> of Afton. This extended list includes all the papers from Vicksburg. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Afton
- Published In Delhi [Richland Parish] ...
- The Delhi Chronicle (from 1872)
- The Delhi Dispatch (from 1934)
- The Delhi Dispatch (from 1954)
- The Dispatch (from 1953)
- Published In Saint Joseph [Tensas Parish] ...
- Tensas Gazette (from 1886)
- The North Louisiana Journal (from 1871)
- The Tensas Gazette (from 1852)
- The Tensas Parish Gazette (from 186?)
- Published In Port Gibson [Claiborne County] ...
- Daily Southern Reveille (from 1858)
- Mississippi Watchman (from 1832)
- Port-Gibson Herald (from 1842)
- The American Times (from 1824)
- The Port Gibson Herald, And Correspondent (from 1848)
- The Port Gibson Reveille (from 1890)
- The Port Gibson Reveille (from 185?)
- The Port Gibson Standard (from 1867)
- The Port-Gibson Correspondent, And Mississippi General Advertiser (from 1824)
- The Port-Gibson Correspondent (from 1818)
- The Port-Gibson Correspondent (from 1833)
- The Southern Reveille (from 1857)
- The Southern Reveille (from 1851)
- The Southern Reveille (from 1876)
- The Weekly Record (from 1887)
- The Weekly Standard (from 1865)
- Tri-Weekly Southern Reveille (from 1859)
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- Afton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Afton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.2449, Longitude: -91.1915 In this case, the coordinates for Afton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |