Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Jonestown.
Our newspaper information for Jonestown 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 Jonestown. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Jonestown. Our list contains 29 papers that were published within 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> of Jonestown.
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 Jonestown.
Newspapers Neighboring Jonestown ...
The following newspapers were published within 10 miles [16.1 km] of Jonestown.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Jonestown.
- Published In Preston ...
- New Farm (from 1887)
- Years of publication: 1887 to 19??
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the New Farm
- Holdings for: LCCN SN90057300
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 22464037
- Preston News The Bay Country Farmer (from 1942)
- Preston News (from 1937)
- Preston News (from 1906)
- The Preston Echo (from 1866)
- The Preston Times (from 18??)
- Published In Federalsburg ...
- Federalsburg Courier (from 1871)
- Maryland Courier (from 1872)
- The Federalsburg Times (from 1929)
- The Federalsburg Times (from 1964)
- The Times (from 1963)
- Published In Hurlock [Dorchester County] ...
- Upper Dorchester News (from 1921)
- Upper Dorchester News (from 1948)
- Published In Denton ...
- American Union (from 1860)
- Caroline Democrat (from 1880)
- Caroline Independent (from 1927)
- Caroline Intelligencer (from 1831)
- Denton Journal (from 1847)
- Denton Pearl (from 1845)
- Journal (from 1976)
- Years of publication: 1976 to 1980
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Journal
- Holdings for: LCCN SN90057008
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 20850085
- The Caroline County Journal (from 1976)
- The Caroline County Times-Record (from 1983)
- The County Record (from 1952)
- The Independent (from 1926)
- The Pearl (from 1840)
- Times-Record (from 2009)
- Published In Easton [Talbot County] ...
- We know of 29 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Easton. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Easton
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> of Jonestown. This extended list includes all the papers from Easton. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Jonestown
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- Jonestown) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Jonestown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.7296, Longitude: -75.8913 In this case, the coordinates for Jonestown have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |