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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Pecktonville 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 Pecktonville. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Pecktonville. Our list contains 32 papers that were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> of Pecktonville.

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 Pecktonville.  

Newspapers Neighboring Pecktonville ...

The following newspapers were published within 15 miles [24.1 km] of Pecktonville.

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

  • Published In Hancock  ...
    • The Hancock News (from 1914)
    • The Hancock Star (from 1889)
    • The Star (from 189?)
      • Years of publication:  189? to 19??
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Star
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN89060224
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 20535543
  • Published In Berkeley Springs [Morgan County] ...
  • Published In Williamsport  ...
  • Published In Mercersburg [Franklin County] ...
    • Mercersburg Journal (from 1863)
    • Mercersburg Journal (from 189?)
    • Mercersburg Visitor (from 1843)
    • Mercersburg Weekly Visitor (from 184?)
    • The Good Intent (from 1861)
    • The Independent (from 1921)
    • Weekly Journal (from 1843)
    • Weekly Journal (from 1871)
  • Published In Martinsburg [Berkeley County] ...
    • We know of 32 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Martinsburg. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Martinsburg
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> of Pecktonville. This extended list includes all the papers from Martinsburg. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Pecktonville

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- Pecktonville) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Pecktonville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.6698, Longitude: -78.0442       In this case, the coordinates for Pecktonville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).