Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Freetown.
Our newspaper information for Freetown 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 Freetown. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Freetown. Our list contains 11 papers that were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> of Freetown.
Newspapers Neighboring Freetown ...
The following newspapers were published within 22 miles [35.4 km] of Freetown.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Freetown.
- Published In Franklin ...
- The St. Mary Banner (from 1889)
- Published In Jeanerette [Iberia Parish] ...
- Jeanerette Weekly Journal (from 1964)
- The Coast Herald (from 1898)
- The Jeanerette Enterprise (from 19??)
- The Jeanerette Enterprise (from 1967)
- The Jeanerette Progress (from 1931)
- The Teche Pilot (from 1887)
- Published In Patterson ...
- The New Era (from 1906)
- The Patterson Echo (from 1904)
- The Patterson Tribune (from 1910)
- The St. Mary Optic (from 1894)
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 from Point A (ie- Freetown) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Freetown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 29.7841, Longitude: -91.6662 In this case, the coordinates for Freetown have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |