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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Five Points 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 Five Points. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Five Points. Our list contains 12 papers that were published within 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> of Five Points.

Newspapers Neighboring Five Points ...

The following newspapers were published within 10 miles [16.1 km] of Five Points.

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

  • Published In Walhalla  ...
    • The Oconee News (from 1901)
    • Walhalla Banner (from 185?)
      • The first year of publication was in 185?, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Walhalla Banner
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN97064671
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 36494472
  • Published In Westminster  ...
  • Published In Seneca  ...

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- Five Points) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Five Points. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.7245, Longitude: -83.1249       In this case, the coordinates for Five Points have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).