Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Pittsboro.
Our newspaper information for Pittsboro 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 7 papers that were published in the immediate area of Pittsboro. In addition, the list contains another 44 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Pittsboro. In total, we've identified 51 papers within 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> of Pittsboro.
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 Pittsboro.
Newspapers Published In Pittsboro ...
We know of 7 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Pittsboro:
- Central Reflector (from 1832)
- Chatham Citizen (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 Chatham Citizen
- Holdings for: LCCN SN92072940
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 25193794
- Chatham Herald-Tribune (from 1984)
- Chatham Observer (from 1901)
- The Chatham County Herald (from 1977)
- The Home (from 188?)
- The Pittsboro Herald (from 1972)
Newspapers Neighboring Pittsboro ...
The following newspapers were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> of Pittsboro.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Pittsboro.
- Published In Chapel Hill [Orange County] ...
- 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 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> of Pittsboro. 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 Pittsboro
- Published In Siler City ...
- Siler City Leader (from 1892)
- The Chatham News (from 1924)
- The Messenger (from 189?)
- The Siler City Grit (from 1904)
- Published In Sanford [Lee County] ...
- Central Carolinian (from 1953)
- The Carolina Banner (from 1921)
- The Central Express (from 1886)
- The Sanford Express (from 1891)
- The Sanford Herald (from 1930)
- The Sanford Journal (from 1926)
- Published In Apex [Wake County] ...
- North State News (from 1930)
- The Apex Booster (from 1942)
- The Apex Journal (from 190?)
- The Wake County Journal And Apex Booster (from 1945)
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- Pittsboro) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Pittsboro. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.7204, Longitude: -79.1772 |