Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Rockland.
Our newspaper information for Rockland is based on data taken from the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.
The following list contains the names of 6 papers that were published in the immediate area of Rockland. In addition, the list contains another 44 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Rockland. In total, we've identified 50 papers within 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> of Rockland.
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 Rockland.
Newspapers Published In Rockland ...
We know of 6 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Rockland:
- Abington Standard (from 19??)
- Rockland Independent (from 1884)
- Rockland Standard Rockland Independent (from 1934)
- The Rockland Standard And Plymouth County Advertiser (from 1874)
- The Rockland Standard (from 1976)
- The Standard (from 19??)
Newspapers Neighboring Rockland ...
The following newspapers were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> of Rockland.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Rockland.
- Published In Abington ...
- Abington Journal (from 1871)
- Plymouth County Journal (from 187?)
- The Abington Standard And Plymouth County Advertiser (from 1854)
- The Weekly News (from 1878)
- Published In Holbrook [Norfolk County] ...
- Holbrook Times (from 1889)
- The Holbrook Sun (from 1958)
- Published In Brockton ...
- Brockton Advance (from 187?)
- Brockton Daily Evening Enterprise And Brockton Times (from 1934)
- Brockton Daily Evening Enterprise (from 1880)
- Brockton Daily Evening Enterprise (from 1906)
- Brockton Eagle (from 1884)
- Brockton Enterprise (from 1880)
- Brockton Evening Gazette (from 18??)
- Brockton Gazette (from 1892)
- Brockton Weekly Advance (from 1876)
- Brockton Weekly Enterprise (from 1879)
- Brockton Weekly Gazette (from 1874)
- Brockton Weekly Gazette (from 1893)
- Evening Advance (from 1880)
- The Brockton Enterprise & Brockton Times (from 1979)
- The Brockton Times (from 1895)
- The Enterprise (from 1982)
- Published In Pembroke ...
- The Bellows (from 1868)
- The first year of publication was in 1868, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Bellows
- Holdings for: LCCN SN86071728
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 13914687
- The Union (from 1855)
- Published In Randolph [Norfolk County] ...
- East Norfolk Register (from 1865)
- Norfolk County Register (from 1867)
- Randolph Advertiser (from 1862)
- Randolph Transcript And Advertiser (from 1863)
- Randolph Transcript, And New England Advertiser (from 1859)
- Randolph Transcript, And Norfolk County Advertiser (from 1857)
- Randolph Transcript, And Norfolk County Advertiser (from 1860)
- The Free School Campaign (from 1859)
- Published In Weymouth [Norfolk County] ...
- The Weymouth Weekly Gazette (from 1867)
- Weymouth Enterprise (from 1900)
- Weymouth Gazette And Transcript (from 1905)
- Weymouth Gazette The Citizen Braintree Reporter (from 1890)
- Weymouth Gazette The Citizen East Weymouth News Braintree Reporter (from 1890)
- Weymouth Gazette The Citizen East Weymouth News (from 1892)
- Weymouth Gazette, And Braintree Reporter (from 1876)
- Weymouth Gazette (from 1896)
- Weymouth News And Gazette (from 1977)
- Weymouth Weekly Gazette And Braintree Reporter (from 1870)
- Published In Braintree [Norfolk County] ...
- Braintree Moneysaver (from 1966)
- Braintree Reporter (from 1892)
- The Autumn Gale (from 1870)
- The first year of publication was in 1870, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Autumn Gale
- Holdings for: LCCN SN89062454
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 22235038
- The Braintree Bee (from 1894)
- The Braintree Observer And Sunday Forum (from 1967)
- The Braintree Observer (from 1886)
- The Braintree Star (from 1968)
- The Braintree Sunday Forum (from 1966)
- The Braintree Sunday News (from 1962)
- Published In East Bridgewater ...
- East Bridgewater News (from 1864)
- Log Cabin Patriot (from 1840)
- The Guide (from 1883)
- The first year of publication was in 1883, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Guide
- Holdings for: LCCN 2013257158
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 864036629
- Published In Hingham ...
- Hingham Gazette (from 1827)
- Hingham Journal & Mariner (from 1993)
- Hingham Journal South Shore Advertiser (from 1850)
- Hingham Journal (from 1881)
- Hingham Patriot (from 1838)
- The Hingham Journal (from 1995)
- Published In Cohasset [Norfolk County] ...
- The Cohasset Cottager (from 1882)
- Published In North Scituate ...
- Scituate Light (from 189?)
- Scituate Mirror (from 1979)
- Published In Quincy [Norfolk County] ...
- We know of 34 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Quincy. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Quincy
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> of Rockland. This extended list includes all the papers from Quincy. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Rockland
- Published In Stoughton [Norfolk County] ...
- Stoughton Chronicle And News-Sentinel (from 1953)
- Stoughton Chronicle And News-Sentinel (from 1991)
- Stoughton Chronicle (from 1979)
- Stoughton Examiner (from 1922)
- Stoughton News (from 1911)
- The Citizen (from 188?)
- The first year of publication was in 188?, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Citizen
- Holdings for: LCCN SN96064292
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 34275062
- The Stoughton News-Sentinel (from 1916)
- The Stoughton Record (from 18??)
- The Stoughton Sentinel (from 1863)
- The Stoughton Sentinel (from 1870)
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Chronicling America
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The official website for State of Massachusetts: https://www.mass.gov/
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- Rockland) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rockland. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.1307, Longitude: -70.9162 In this case, the coordinates for Rockland have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |