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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Quarryville 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 6 papers that were published in the immediate area of Quarryville. In addition, the list contains another 157 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Quarryville. In total, we've identified 163 papers within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of Quarryville.

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 Quarryville.  

Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load.

Newspapers Published In Quarryville ...

We know of 6 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Quarryville:

  • The Local Ledger (from 1987)
  • The Quarryville Sun (from 1900)
  • The Quarryville Sun (from 1885)
  • The Sun & Local Ledger (from 1957)
  • The Sun-Ledger (from 1965)
  • The Sun (from 1896)
    • Years of publication:  1896 to 1900
    • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
    • Catalog Card for The Sun
    • Holdings for:   LCCN SN89077484
    • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 19570865

Newspapers Neighboring Quarryville ...

The following newspapers were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of Quarryville.

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

  • Published In Strasburg  ...
    • Strasburg Bee (from 1851)
    • Strasburg Herald (from 1857)
    • The Free Press (from 1870)
    • The Strasburg Weekly News (from 1898)
  • Published In Christiana  ...
    • Christiana Ledger (from 1883)
    • Local Ledger (from 1914)
  • Published In Intercourse  ...
  • Published In Lancaster  ...
    • We know of 146 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Lancaster. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Lancaster
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of Quarryville. This extended list includes all the papers from Lancaster. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Quarryville.

      Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load
  • Published In Millersville  ...
    • Eastern Farmer (from 192?)
    • The Public Ledger (from 1988)
  • Published In Oxford [Chester County] ...
  • Published In Russellville [Chester County] ...
    • Farmer's Advocate (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 Farmer's Advocate
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN90069081
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 20764301

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Quarryville) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Quarryville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.8972, Longitude: -76.1635