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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Knobsville 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 Knobsville. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Knobsville. Our list contains 79 papers that were published within 18 miles [29 km]<1> of Knobsville.

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 Knobsville.  

Newspapers Neighboring Knobsville ...

The following newspapers were published within 18 miles [29 km] of Knobsville.

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

  • Published In McConnellsburg  ...
  • Published In Mercersburg [Franklin County] ...
    • Mercersburg Journal (from 1863)
    • Mercersburg Journal (from 189?)
    • Mercersburg Visitor (from 1843)
    • Mercersburg Weekly Visitor (from 184?)
    • The Good Intent (from 1861)
    • The Independent (from 1921)
    • Weekly Journal (from 1843)
    • Weekly Journal (from 1871)
  • Published In Saxton [Bedford County] ...
    • Broad Top Bulletin (from 1947)
    • The Herald (from 1884)
      • The first year of publication was in 1884, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Herald
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN86082058
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 14983249
    • The Saxton Herald
      • The first year of publication is unknown, with the last issue in 19??
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Saxton Herald
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN86082057
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 14983470
  • Published In Chambersburg [Franklin County] ...
    • We know of 75 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Chambersburg. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Chambersburg
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 18 miles [29 km]<1> of Knobsville. This extended list includes all the papers from Chambersburg. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Knobsville
  • Published In Orbisonia [Huntingdon County] ...
    • The Leader (from 1874)
    • The Orbisonia Dispatch (from 1881)
    • The Valley Log (from 1980)
  • Published In Coalmont [Huntingdon 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Knobsville) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Knobsville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.0074, Longitude: -77.9626