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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Old Fort 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 4 papers that were published in the immediate area of Old Fort. In addition, the list contains another 97 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Old Fort. In total, we've identified 101 papers within 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> of Old Fort.

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 Old Fort.  

Newspapers Published In Old Fort ...

We know of 4 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Old Fort:

Newspapers Neighboring Old Fort ...

The following newspapers were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> of Old Fort.

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

  • Published In Black Mountain [Buncombe County] ...
  • 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 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 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 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> of Old Fort. 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 Old Fort
  • Published In Burnsville [Yancey County] ...
  • Published In Spruce Pine [Mitchell County] ...

The official website for Chronicling America

Unfortunately, we don't know of an official website for Old Fort. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of North Carolina: https://www.nc.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Old Fort) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Old Fort. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.6292, Longitude: -82.1814       In this case, the coordinates for Old Fort have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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