Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Mount Pleasant.
Our newspaper information for Mount Pleasant 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 Mount Pleasant. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Mount Pleasant. Our list contains 17 papers that were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> of Mount Pleasant.
Newspapers Neighboring Mount Pleasant ...
The following newspapers were published within 16 miles [25.7 km] of Mount Pleasant.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Mount Pleasant.
- Published In Newland ...
- Avery County News (from 1951)
- Avery Journal (from 1959)
- Avery Scenic Press (from 194?)
- The Avery Herald (from 193?)
- The Avery Post (from 1954)
- Published In Banner Elk ...
- The Banner Of Avery (from 1991)
- Published In Bakersville [Mitchell County] ...
- Mitchell County Banner (from 19??)
- Mitchell Ledger (from 1971)
- Roan Mountain Republican (from 1876)
- The Mountain Voice (from 1880)
- The Western North Carolina Democrat (from 1887)
- Published In Spruce Pine [Mitchell County] ...
- The Mitchell Journal (from 1978)
- The Spruce Pine News (from 192?)
- Tri-County News-Journal (from 1985)
- Tri-County News-Mitchell Journal (from 1981)
- Published In Blowing Rock [Caldwell County] ...
- Sundown Times (from 1978)
- The Blowing Rocket (from 1932)
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 from Point A (ie- Mount Pleasant) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Mount Pleasant. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.0521, Longitude: -81.9554 In this case, the coordinates for Mount Pleasant have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |