Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Freeport.
Our newspaper information for Freeport 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 4 papers that were published in the immediate area of Freeport. In addition, the list contains another 23 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Freeport. In total, we've identified 27 papers within 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> of Freeport.
Newspapers Published In Freeport ...
We know of 4 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Freeport:
- Freeport Facts (from 1913)
- The Brazosport Citizen (from 1951)
- The Citizen-Light (from 19??)
- The Daily Facts-Review (from 1952)
Newspapers Neighboring Freeport ...
The following newspapers were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> of Freeport.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Freeport.
- Published In Velasco ...
- Brazosport World (from 19??)
- The Drum Tap (from 1862)
- The Velasco Times (from 1891)
- The Velasco World (from 1891)
- Velasco Daily Times (from 1891)
- Velasco Herald (from 1837)
- Velasco World (from 1941)
- Published In Lake Jackson ...
- The Brazorian News (from 1963)
- The Lake Jackson News (from 1944)
- Published In Brazoria ...
- Brazos Courier (from 1839)
- Texas Gazette And Brazoria Commercial Advertiser (from 1832)
- Texas Planter (from 1852)
- The Advocate Of The People's Rights (from 1833)
- The Brazoria Star (from 1904)
- The Constitutional Advocate And Texas Public Advertiser (from 1832)
- The Independent (from 1880)
- The People (from 1838)
- The first year of publication was in 1838, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The People
- Holdings for: LCCN SN86088135
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 14051931
- The Texas Republican (from 1834)
- Published In Angleton ...
- Brazoria County Daily Review (from 19??)
- Brazoria County Review (from 1940)
- The Angleton Times (from 1893)
- Published In San Luis ...
- San Luis Advocate (from 1840)
- Published In West Columbia ...
- The Brazoria County News (from 1962)
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- Freeport) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Freeport. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 28.9419, Longitude: -95.3620 In this case, the coordinates for Freeport have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |