Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Plum Point.
Our newspaper information for Plum Point 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 Plum Point. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Plum Point. Our list contains 71 papers that were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<1> of Plum Point.
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 Plum Point.
Newspapers Neighboring Plum Point ...
The following newspapers were published within 13 miles [20.9 km] of Plum Point.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Plum Point.
- Published In Wickford ...
- The Rhode Island Telephone & Genealogical And Historical Repository (from 1883)
- The Standard (from 1890)
- The Wickford Standard (from 1914)
- Washington County Advocate (from 183?)
- Wickford Standard (from 1888)
- Published In Kingston ...
- Rhode-Island Advocate (from 1831)
- Published In Newport [Newport County] ...
- We know of 57 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Newport. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Newport
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 13 miles [20.9 km]<1> of Plum Point. This extended list includes all the papers from Newport. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Plum Point
- Published In Wakefield ...
- Narragansett Times And Washington County Advertiser (from 1864)
- Narragansett Times (from 1855)
- Narragansett Times (from 1859)
- Narragansett Times (from 1889)
- South County Journal (from 1858)
- The Wakefield Advertiser (from 1851)
- Published In West Kingston ...
- South County Chronicle (from 1893)
- Published In Homestead [Newport County] ...
- The Prudence Island Beacon (from 1926)
- Published In Apponaug [Kent County] ...
- Warwick City Herald (from 1932)
- Published In Shannock ...
- Shannock Weekly Sentinel (from 1882)
- Published In Warwick [Kent County] ...
- Warwick Beacon (from 1953)
- Warwick City Times (from 1932)
- Published In Arctic [Kent County] ...
- Pawtuxet Valley Daily Times (from 1892)
- The Weekly Standard (from 189?)
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Plum Point) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Plum Point. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.5307, Longitude: -71.4223 In this case, the coordinates for Plum Point have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |