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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Mattapoisett 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 Mattapoisett. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Mattapoisett. Our list contains 103 papers that were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of Mattapoisett.

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 Mattapoisett.  

Newspapers Neighboring Mattapoisett ...

The following newspapers were published within 12 miles [19.3 km] of Mattapoisett.

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

  • Published In Fairhaven [Bristol County] ...
    • Bristol Gazette (from 1812)
    • O Colonial (from 1925)
    • O Colonial (from 1925)
    • The Fairhaven Star (from 1880)
    • The Star (from 1879)
      • Years of publication:  1879 to 1880
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Star
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN89062134
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 20019939
  • Published In New Bedford [Bristol County] ...
    • We know of 89 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of New Bedford. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for New Bedford
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of Mattapoisett. This extended list includes all the papers from New Bedford. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Mattapoisett
  • Published In Wareham  ...
  • Published In Dartmouth [Bristol County] ...
  • Published In Bourne [Barnstable County] ...
  • Published In Falmouth [Barnstable County] ...

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 from Point A (ie- Mattapoisett) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Mattapoisett. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.6584, Longitude: -70.8161       In this case, the coordinates for Mattapoisett have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).