Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Hillsborough.
Our newspaper information for Hillsborough 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 11 papers that were published in the immediate area of Hillsborough. In addition, the list contains another 30 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Hillsborough. In total, we've identified 41 papers within 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> of Hillsborough.
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 Hillsborough.
Newspapers Published In Hillsborough ...
We know of 11 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of 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)
Newspapers Neighboring Hillsborough ...
The following newspapers were published within 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> of Hillsborough.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Hillsborough.
- Published In Mebane [Alamance County] ...
- Mebane Enterprise (from 1991)
- The Alamance-Orange Enterprise (from 19??)
- The Mebane Leader (from 19??)
- Published In Chapel Hill ...
- We know of 30 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Chapel Hill. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Chapel Hill
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> of Hillsborough. This extended list includes all the papers from Chapel Hill. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Hillsborough
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- Hillsborough) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Hillsborough. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.0787, Longitude: -79.0995 |