Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Wood Point.
Our newspaper information for Wood Point 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 Wood Point. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Wood Point. Our list contains 74 papers that were published within 8 miles [12.9 km]<1> of Wood Point.
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 Wood Point.
Newspapers Neighboring Wood Point ...
The following newspapers were published within 8 miles [12.9 km] of Wood Point.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Wood Point.
- 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 8 miles [12.9 km]<1> of Wood Point. 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 Wood Point
- Published In 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?)
- Published In Smithsburg ...
- People's Guide (from 187?)
- Published In Greencastle [Franklin County] ...
- Echo Pilot (from 1893)
- Greencastle Press And Kauffmans Progressive News (from 1912)
- Greencastle Press (from 1878)
- Kauffmans Progressive News (from 1912)
- The Greencastle Pilot (from 1891)
- The Greencastle Press And News (from 1927)
- The Local Gossiper (from 1886)
- The Pilot (from 1860)
- The Valley Echo (from 1866)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Wood Point) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Wood Point. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.6607, Longitude: -77.7386 In this case, the coordinates for Wood Point have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |