Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Chapel Hill.
Our newspaper information for Chapel Hill 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 30 papers that were published in the immediate area of Chapel Hill. In addition, the list contains another 55 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Chapel Hill. In total, we've identified 85 papers within 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> of Chapel Hill.
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 Chapel Hill.
Newspapers Published In Chapel Hill ...
We know of 30 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Chapel Hill:
- Black Ink Black Student Movement, University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill (from 1969)
- Chapel Hill Literary Gazette (from 1857)
- Chapel Hill News Leader (from 1954)
- Cloudbuster (from 1942)
- Columbian Repository (from 1836)
- Contempo (from 1931)
- Years of publication: 1931 to 1942
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Contempo
- Holdings for: LCCN SN96095045
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 34561209
- Orange County Independent (from 1894)
- Press Institute News (from 1916)
- Protean Radish (from 1969)
- Radish (from 1968)
- Years of publication: 1968 to 1969
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Radish
- Holdings for: LCCN SN93065768
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 20838455
- Radish (from 1968)
- Years of publication: 1968 to 1969
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Radish
- Holdings for: LCCN 2003252648
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 7558765
- The Chapel Hill Gazette (from 1858)
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- The Chapel Hill Herald (from 1988)
- The Chapel Hill Ledger (from 1879)
- The Chapel Hill Newspaper (from 1972)
- The Chapel Hill News (from 1893)
- The Chapel Hill News (from 1992)
- The Chapel Hill Weekly Gazette (from 1857)
- The Chapel Hill Weekly (from 1923)
- The Chapel Hillian (from 1890)
- The Daily Tar Heel (from 1929)
- The Daily Tar Heel (from 1946)
- The Harbinger (from 1833)
- The Independent (from 1894)
- The first year of publication was in 1894, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Independent
- Holdings for: LCCN SN91068224
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 23922602
- The NC Landmark Limited (from 1982)
- The Neighborhood Gazette (from 1962)
- The Protean Radish (from 1969)
- The Tar Heel (from 1943)
- The Tar Heel (from 1893)
- The Weekly Ledger (from 1878)
Newspapers Neighboring Chapel Hill ...
The following newspapers were published within 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> of Chapel Hill.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Chapel Hill.
- Published In Durham [Durham County] ...
- We know of 44 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Durham. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Durham
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> of Chapel Hill. This extended list includes all the papers from Durham. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Chapel Hill
- Published In Hillsborough ...
- Hillsboro Recorder (from 1887)
- Hillsborough Plaindealer (from 186?)
- North Carolina Democrat (from 184?)
- Orange County Observer (from 1880)
- The Alliance Weekly (from 189?)
- The Enterprise (from 191?)
- The Golden Rule Watchman And Messenger (from 190?)
- The Hillsborough Recorder (from 1820)
- The Hillsborough Recorder (from 1820)
- The North Carolina Gazette (from 1785)
- The Southern Mail (from 1880)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Chapel Hill) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Chapel Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.9131, Longitude: -79.0558 |