Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Williamsport.
Our newspaper information for Williamsport 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 10 papers that were published in the immediate area of Williamsport. In addition, the list contains another 55 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Williamsport. In total, we've identified 65 papers within 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> of Williamsport.
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 Williamsport.
Newspapers Published In Williamsport ...
We know of 10 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Williamsport:
- Modern Times And Home Journal-Semi-Weekly (from 1846)
- Modern Times And Home Journal (from 1846)
- Potomac Sentinel (from 1851)
- Republican Banner (from 1830)
- The first year of publication was in 1830, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Republican Banner
- Holdings for: LCCN SN83016375
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 9790157
- The Leader (from 1887)
- The Times And Journal (from 1847)
- The Transcript (from 1884)
- The Williamsport Leader (from 1884)
- The Williamsport Pilot (from 1870)
- Williamsport Transcript (from 188?)
Newspapers Neighboring Williamsport ...
The following newspapers were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> of Williamsport.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Williamsport.
- Published In Hagerstown ...
- We know of 54 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Hagerstown. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Hagerstown
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> of Williamsport. This extended list includes all the papers from Hagerstown. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Williamsport
- Published In Keedysville ...
- The Antietam Wavelet (from 1887)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Williamsport) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Williamsport. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.5976, Longitude: -77.8176 In this case, the coordinates for Williamsport have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |