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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Longtown 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 Longtown. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Longtown. Our list contains 31 papers that were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<1> of Longtown.

Newspapers Neighboring Longtown ...

The following newspapers were published within 19 miles [30.6 km] of Longtown.

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

  • Published In Marion [McDowell County] ...
    • 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 Morganton  ...
  • Published In Spruce Pine [Mitchell County] ...
  • Published In Old Fort [McDowell County] ...
  • Published In Valdese  ...
    • The Enterprise (from 1922)
    • The Valdese News (from 1938)

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Longtown) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Longtown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.7690, Longitude: -81.9021       In this case, the coordinates for Longtown have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).