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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for West Appleton 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 West Appleton. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding West Appleton. Our list contains 40 papers that were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> of West Appleton.

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 West Appleton.  

Newspapers Neighboring West Appleton ...

The following newspapers were published within 14 miles [22.5 km] of West Appleton.

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

  • Published In Liberty [Waldo County] ...
    • The Local Liberty (from 1882)
  • Published In Appleton  ...
    • Good Neighbors (from 1991)
  • Published In Union  ...
    • The Union Herald (from 1878)
      • The first year of publication was in 1878, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Union Herald
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN00062521
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 45432335
    • The Union Weekly Press (from 18??)
    • Union Farmer (from 1888)
    • Union Weekly Times (from 189?)
  • Published In Belfast [Waldo County] ...
    • We know of 34 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Belfast. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Belfast
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> of West Appleton. This extended list includes all the papers from Belfast. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for West Appleton
  • Published In Camden  ...
  • Published In Rockport  ...
    • The Rockport News (from 1892)
    • The Village Echo (from 187?)
      • The first year of publication was in 187?, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Village Echo
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN96075081
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 34748552

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- West Appleton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in West Appleton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.3511, Longitude: -69.2606       In this case, the coordinates for West Appleton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).