Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Williamston.
Our newspaper information for Williamston 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 5 papers that were published in the immediate area of Williamston. In addition, the list contains another 52 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Williamston. In total, we've identified 57 papers within 21 miles [33.8 km]<1> of Williamston.
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 Williamston.
Newspapers Published In Williamston ...
We know of 5 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Williamston:
- Democratic Banner (from 1856)
- The Enterprise (from 1899)
- The Martin County Times (from 1882)
- Williamston Expositor (from 1866)
- Williamston Mercury (from 1859)
Newspapers Neighboring Williamston ...
The following newspapers were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<1> of Williamston.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Williamston.
- Published In Robersonville ...
- The Weekly Herald (from 191?)
- Published In Windsor [Bertie County] ...
- Bertie County Ledger (from 1929)
- Bertie Ledger-Advance (from 1930)
- Ledger-Advance (from 1926)
- The Albemarle Times (from 1874)
- The Orient (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 Orient
- Holdings for: LCCN SN92073958
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 25416435
- The Windsor Herald, And Bertie County Register (from 183?)
- The Windsor Ledger (from 1928)
- Windsor Ledger (from 1889)
- Windsor Public Ledger (from 1886)
- Published In Plymouth [Washington County] ...
- Roanoke Cresset (from 1858)
- The Old Flag (from 1865)
- The Plymouth Banner (from 1856)
- The Plymouth News (from 1849)
- The Roanoke Beacon And The Washington County News (from 1929)
- The Roanoke Beacon (from 1889)
- The Roanoke Beacon (from 1959)
- The Washington County Times (from 1908)
- Published In Bethel [Pitt County] ...
- Southern Voice (from 18??)
- The Bethel Post (from 1951)
- Published In Pinetown [Beaufort County] ...
- The Pine Town Record And Beaufort County Mirror (from 1910)
- Published In Washington [Beaufort County] ...
- We know of 52 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Washington. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Washington
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 21 miles [33.8 km]<1> of Williamston. This extended list includes all the papers from Washington. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Williamston
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Williamston) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Williamston. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.8536, Longitude: -77.0574 |