Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Crossroads 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 Crossroads. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Crossroads. Our list contains 38 papers that were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> of Crossroads.

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 Crossroads.

Newspapers Neighboring Crossroads ...

The following newspapers were published within 16 miles [25.7 km] of Crossroads.

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

Published In Moneta [Bedford County] ...
- Smith Mountain Eagle (from 1985)
  - Years of publication: 1985 to current
  - Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
  - Catalog Card for the Smith Mountain Eagle
  - Holdings for: LCCN SN94002334
  - Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 29741075
- Stone Mountain Echo (from 1939)
  - Years of publication: 1939 to 194?
  - Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
  - Catalog Card for the Stone Mountain Echo
  - Holdings for: LCCN SN00064448
  - Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 43668487
Published In Rocky Mount ...
- Franklin Chronicle (from 1905)
  - Years of publication: 1905 to 1929
  - Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
  - Catalog Card for the Franklin Chronicle
  - Holdings for: LCCN SN95079291
  - Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 33356001
- Franklin Times (from 1888)
  - Years of publication: 1888 to 1894
  - Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
  - Catalog Card for the Franklin Times
  - Holdings for: LCCN SN96096577
  - Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 34540631
- The County News And Franklin Chronicle (from 1929)
  - Years of publication: 1929 to 193?
  - Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
  - Catalog Card for The County News And Franklin Chronicle
  - Holdings for: LCCN SN95079292
  - Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 33356036
- The Franklin County Times (from 1968)
  - Years of publication: 1968 to 1981
  - Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
  - Catalog Card for The Franklin County Times
  - Holdings for: LCCN SN00064440
  - Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 43440609
- The Franklin Gazette (from 1876)
  - Years of publication: 1876 to 1888
  - Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
  - Catalog Card for The Franklin Gazette
  - Holdings for: LCCN SN95070212
  - Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 32826681
- The Franklin Gazette (from 1937)
  - Years of publication: 1937 to 1967
  - Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
  - Catalog Card for The Franklin Gazette
  - Holdings for: LCCN SN98068337
  - Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 38947227
- The Franklin News-Post And Franklin Chronicle (from 193?)
  - Years of publication: 193? to 1950
  - Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
  - Catalog Card for The Franklin News-Post And Franklin Chronicle
  - Holdings for: LCCN SN95079288
  - Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 33356063
- The Franklin News-Post (from 1950)
  - Years of publication: 1950 to current
  - Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
  - Catalog Card for The Franklin News-Post
  - Holdings for: LCCN SN95079289
  - Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 33374560
- The Lonesome Pine (from 1936)
  - Years of publication: 1936 to 193?
  - Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
  - Catalog Card for The Lonesome Pine
  - Holdings for: LCCN SN99066971
  - Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 16677986
- The Rocky Mount-a-neer (from 193?)
  - Published during 193?
  - Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
  - Catalog Card for The Rocky Mount-a-neer
  - Holdings for: LCCN SN99066966
  - Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 43335798
- The Times-Democrat (from 1894)
  - Years of publication: 1894 to 1913
  - Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
  - Catalog Card for The Times-Democrat
  - Holdings for: LCCN SN96096578
  - Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 34540667
- The Virginia Monitor (from 1876)
  - Published during 1876
  - Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
  - Catalog Card for The Virginia Monitor
  - Holdings for: LCCN SN85026951
  - Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 12802967
Published In Vinton [Roanoke County] ...
- The Vinton Messenger (from 1960)
  - Years of publication: 1960 to current
  - Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
  - Catalog Card for The Vinton Messenger
  - Holdings for: LCCN SN85000801
  - Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 11779194
Published In Roanoke [Roanoke City] ...
- We know of 38 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Roanoke. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Roanoke
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> of Crossroads. This extended list includes all the papers from Roanoke. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Crossroads

Footnotes ...

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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- Crossroads) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Crossroads. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.0832, Longitude: -79.7500 In this case, the coordinates for Crossroads have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).