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Local Newspapers for the New Prospect Cemetery ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of the New Prospect Cemetery.

Our newspaper information for the New Prospect Cemetery is based on data supplied by the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.

Hint: When we started searching newspapers, we only looked for obituaries. Eventually we realized that our search was too narrow and there was much that we were missing. Now we include things like around-the-town and gossip columns, birth and death announcements.

We have some family members who owned businesses and now we search for articles and advertistments for those businesses. Some family members could have been better behaved and a search of police blotters contained some surprises.

The following newspapers were published within 18 miles [29 km]<1> of the New Prospect Cemetery. These papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in the order of their distance from the New Prospect Cemetery.

  • Published In Hurt
  • Published In Altavista   [Campbell County, VA]
  • Published In Gretna
  • Published In Rustburg   [Campbell County, VA]
    • The Gazette (from Campbell County Times)
      • Years of publication:  Campbell County Times to 194?
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Gazette
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN95079165
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 32603030
    • Altavista Journal (from The 2385 Bugler)
    • The Tri-County Democrat (from The Long Mountain Expositor)
    • The Parrot (from The Lynchburg Ledger)
      • Years of publication:  The Lynchburg Ledger to current
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Parrot
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN99007394
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 41436083
    • Campbell County Times (from The Rustburg Villager)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Rustburg.
  • Published In Moneta   [Bedford County, VA]

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Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- ) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point at the New Prospect Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.0885, Longitude: -79.2978       In this case, the coordinates for the New Prospect Cemetery have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).









 

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