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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Rowan 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 Rowan. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Rowan. Our list contains 14 papers that were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<1> of Rowan.

Newspapers Neighboring Rowan ...

The following newspapers were published within 25 miles [40.2 km] of Rowan.

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

  • Published In Point Caswell [Pender County] ...
  • Published In Burgaw [Pender County] ...
  • Published In Elizabethtown  ...
    • Cape Fear Lance (from 1898)
    • The Beacon (from 1888)
    • The Bladen County News (from 1910)
  • Published In Clarkton  ...
  • Published In Wallace [Duplin County] ...
  • Published In Rose Hill [Duplin County] ...

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Rowan) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rowan. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.5129, Longitude: -78.2711       In this case, the coordinates for Rowan have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).