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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Ridge 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 Ridge. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Ridge. Our list contains 62 papers that were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<1> of Ridge.

Newspapers Neighboring Ridge ...

The following newspapers were published within 25 miles [40.2 km] of Ridge.

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

  • Published In Houston  ...
    • Chickasaw County Times (from 191?)
    • Houston Advocate (from 1907)
    • Houston Post (from 1909)
    • Houston Post (from 1904)
    • Southern Patriot (from 18??)
    • The Chickasaw Messenger (from 1872)
    • The Free South (from 1883)
    • The Houston Petrel (from 1857)
    • Times-Post (from 1913)
      • Years of publication:  1913 to current
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Times-Post
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN83004725
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 10014121
  • Published In Okolona  ...
    • Okolona Messenger (from 1900)
    • The Chickasaw Messenger (from 1880)
    • The Chickasaw Sun
      • The first year of publication is unknown, with the last issue in 1902
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Chickasaw Sun
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN87065461
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 16103666
    • The Okolona News (from 1855)
    • The Okolona Sun (from 1902)
    • The People's Messenger (from 18??)
    • The Prairie News (from 1851)
    • The Southern States (from 1872)
  • Published In Pontotoc [Pontotoc County] ...
  • Published In Bruce [Calhoun County] ...
  • Published In Calhoun City [Calhoun County] ...
  • Published In Pittsboro [Calhoun County] ...
  • Published In Cumberland [Webster County] ...
  • Published In Ecru [Pontotoc County] ...
    • The Ecru Echo (from 1915)
  • Published In Tupelo [Lee County] ...

The official website for Chronicling America

The official website for State of Mississippi: https://www.ms.gov/

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- Ridge) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ridge. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.9876, Longitude: -89.0084       In this case, the coordinates for Ridge have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).









 

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