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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for The Colony 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 The Colony. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding The Colony. Our list contains 62 papers that were published within 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> of The Colony.

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 The Colony.  

Newspapers Neighboring The Colony ...

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

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

  • Published In Williamsburg [Williamsburg City] ...
    • We know of 57 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Williamsburg. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Williamsburg
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> of The Colony. This extended list includes all the papers from Williamsburg. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for The Colony
  • Published In Surry [Surry County] ...
  • Published In Toano  ...

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- The Colony) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in The Colony. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.2353, Longitude: -76.7472       In this case, the coordinates for The Colony have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).