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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Graphite 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 Graphite. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Graphite. Our list contains 93 papers that were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> of Graphite.

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 Graphite.  

Newspapers Neighboring Graphite ...

The following newspapers were published within 17 miles [27.4 km] of Graphite.

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

  • Published In Black Mountain [Buncombe County] ...
  • Published In Old Fort  ...
  • Published In Barnardsville [Buncombe County] ...
    • The Junior Times (from 1897)
      • The first year of publication was in 1897, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Junior Times
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN98058955
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 41242162
    • The Times (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 Times
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN98058956
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 41242127
  • Published In Marion  ...
    • Marion Progress (from 1909)
    • Marion Record (from 18??)
    • McDowell Democrat (from 1896)
    • Mountain Mercury (from 1863)
    • The Express (from 19??)
    • The Lamp Post (from 188?)
    • The McDowell News (from 1923)
    • The Messenger (from 1896)
      • The first year of publication was in 1896, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Messenger
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN91068692
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 24624099
    • The Western Enterprise (from 1862)
  • Published In Asheville [Buncombe County] ...
    • We know of 84 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Asheville. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Asheville
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> of Graphite. This extended list includes all the papers from Asheville. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Graphite
  • Published In Burnsville [Yancey County] ...

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Graphite) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Graphite. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.6607, Longitude: -82.2518       In this case, the coordinates for Graphite have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).