Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Brooklyn.
Our newspaper information for Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Brooklyn. Our list contains 32 papers that were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> of Brooklyn.
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 Brooklyn.
Newspapers Neighboring Brooklyn ...
The following newspapers were published within 17 miles [27.4 km] of Brooklyn.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Brooklyn.
- Published In Nashville ...
- The Argonaut (from 1886)
- The Graphic (from 1895)
- The Graphic (from 1985)
- The Nashville Graphic (from 1941)
- Published In Spring Hope ...
- Spring Hope Enterprise And The Bailey News (from 19??)
- Spring Hope Leader (from 1909)
- Spring Hope Messenger (from 189?)
- The Nash County News (from 19??)
- The Spring Hope Journal (from 1915)
- Published In Rocky Mount [Edgecombe County] ...
- Justice Speaks (from 1982)
- Rocky Mount Mail (from 1872)
- Rocky Mount Phenix (from 189?)
- Rocky Mount Progress (from 1879)
- Rocky Mount Telegram (from 1995)
- Rocky Mount Weekly News (from 19??)
- The Argonaut (from 188?)
- The first year of publication was in 188?, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Argonaut
- Holdings for: LCCN SN92073957
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 25416326
- The Evening Telegram (from 1908)
- The Little Clipper (from 1885)
- The Phoenix (from 1887)
- The Rocky Mount Herald (from 1934)
- The Rocky Mount Motor (from 189?)
- The Rocky Mount Record
- The Twin County Echo And The Weekly Record (from 190?)
- The Weekly Reporter (from 188?)
- Published In Elm City [Wilson County] ...
- The Elm City Elevator (from 1901)
- Published In Battleboro [Edgecombe County] ...
- Battleboro Advance (from 1870)
- The Battleboro Progress (from 18??)
- Published In Wilson [Wilson County] ...
- We know of 31 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Wilson. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Wilson
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> of Brooklyn. This extended list includes all the papers from Wilson. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Brooklyn
- Published In Whitakers [Edgecombe County] ...
- The Rattler (from 189?)
- The first year of publication was in 189?, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Rattler
- Holdings for: LCCN 2014236873
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 875922388
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Chronicling America
The official website for Nash County: www.co.nash.nc.us/
The official website for State of North Carolina: https://www.nc.gov/
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 from Point A (ie- Brooklyn) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Brooklyn. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.9663, Longitude: -77.9689 In this case, the coordinates for Brooklyn have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |