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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Cornwall 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 Cornwall. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Cornwall. Our list contains 48 papers that were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<1> of Cornwall.

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 Cornwall.  

Newspapers Neighboring Cornwall ...

The following newspapers were published within 21 miles [33.8 km] of Cornwall.

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

  • Published In Oronoco [Amherst County] ...
    • Blue Ridge Echo (from 1935)
    • The Backwoodsman (from 193?)
  • Published In Lexington [Lexington City] ...
    • We know of 34 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Lexington. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Lexington
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 21 miles [33.8 km]<1> of Cornwall. This extended list includes all the papers from Lexington. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Cornwall
  • Published In Vesuvius  ...
    • The Volcano (from 193?)
  • Published In Glasgow  ...
    • Glasgow Herald (from 1890)
  • Published In Goshen  ...
    • The Goshen Blade (from 1891)
    • The Tattler (from 1935)
  • Published In Greenville [Augusta County] ...
    • Greenville Banner (from 1882)
  • Published In Natural Bridge Station  ...
    • Cacaphonus Calumny (from 1936)
    • Camp 13 News (from 1936)
    • The Black Cat (from 1934)
  • Published In Big Island [Bedford County] ...
    • The Wise-Cracker (from 1936)
  • Published In Amherst [Amherst County] ...

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Cornwall) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Cornwall. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.8046, Longitude: -79.3186       In this case, the coordinates for Cornwall have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).