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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Roxbury 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 Roxbury. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Roxbury. Our list contains 91 papers that were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> of Roxbury.

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 Roxbury.  

Newspapers Neighboring Roxbury ...

The following newspapers were published within 17 miles [27.4 km] of Roxbury.

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

  • Published In Shippensburg [Cumberland County] ...
  • Published In Scotland  ...
  • Published In Chambersburg  ...
    • 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 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> of Roxbury. 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 Roxbury
  • Published In Newville [Cumberland County] ...
  • Published In Orbisonia [Huntingdon County] ...
    • The Leader (from 1874)
    • The Orbisonia Dispatch (from 1881)
    • The Valley Log (from 1980)
  • Published In Shirleysburg [Huntingdon County] ...
    • Shirleysburg Herald (from 1855)
    • Shirleysburg Herald (from 1966)
    • The Herald (from 1858)
    • The Weekly Herald (from 1876)

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 from Point A (ie- Roxbury) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Roxbury. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.1104, Longitude: -77.6624