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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Dorseytown 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 Dorseytown. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Dorseytown. Our list contains 44 papers that were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> of Dorseytown.

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 Dorseytown.  

Newspapers Neighboring Dorseytown ...

The following newspapers were published within 20 miles [32.2 km] of Dorseytown.

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

  • Published In Hemingway  ...
  • Published In Andrews [Georgetown County] ...
  • Published In Georgetown [Georgetown County] ...
    • We know of 38 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Georgetown. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Georgetown
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> of Dorseytown. This extended list includes all the papers from Georgetown. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Dorseytown
  • Published In Kingstree  ...
    • The County Record (from 1885)
    • The News (from 1973)
      • Years of publication:  1973 to ????
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN93067966
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 29377560
    • The Weekly Mail (from 1901)
    • The Williamsburg Republican (from 1873)
    • Williamsburg Herald (from 1881)
    • Williamsburg Herald (from 1916)

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- Dorseytown) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Dorseytown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.6166, Longitude: -79.4748       In this case, the coordinates for Dorseytown have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).