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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Freeman 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 Freeman. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Freeman. Our list contains 91 papers that were published within 23 miles [37 km]<1> of Freeman.

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 Freeman.  

Newspapers Neighboring Freeman ...

The following newspapers were published within 23 miles [37 km] of Freeman.

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

  • Published In Point Caswell [Pender County] ...
  • Published In Shallotte [Brunswick County] ...
  • Published In Whiteville  ...
    • The Afro-Chronicle (from 1972)
    • The Columbus News-Times
    • The Columbus News (from 189?)
    • The Columbus Press (from 19??)
    • The News Reporter (from 1905)
    • The News-Reporter (from 1905)
    • The News (from 190?)
      • Years of publication:  190? to 19??
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN92073997
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 25608500
  • Published In Wilmington [New Hanover County] ...
    • We know of 91 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Wilmington. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Wilmington
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 23 miles [37 km]<1> of Freeman. This extended list includes all the papers from Wilmington. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Freeman

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- Freeman) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Freeman. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.3171, Longitude: -78.2842       In this case, the coordinates for Freeman have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).