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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Mechanicsville 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 Mechanicsville. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Mechanicsville. Our list contains 69 papers that were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> of Mechanicsville.

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 Mechanicsville.  

Newspapers Neighboring Mechanicsville ...

The following newspapers were published within 20 miles [32.2 km] of Mechanicsville.

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

  • Published In Broadway  ...
  • Published In New Market [Shenandoah County] ...
    • Our Church Paper (from 1873)
    • Our Church Paper (from 1873)
    • Our Sunday School (from 1876)
    • Shenandoah Press (from 1883)
    • Shenandoah Valley (from 186?)
    • Spirit Of Democracy (from 1854)
    • Sunday School (from 1873)
  • Published In Harrisonburg [Harrisonburg City] ...
    • We know of 42 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Harrisonburg. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Harrisonburg
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> of Mechanicsville. This extended list includes all the papers from Harrisonburg. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Mechanicsville
  • Published In Dale Enterprise  ...
  • Published In Edinburg [Shenandoah County] ...
  • Published In Stanley [Page County] ...
    • Stanley Herald (from 1891)
  • Published In Luray [Page County] ...
  • Published In Lost City [Hardy County] ...
  • Published In Dayton  ...
  • Published In Elkton  ...
    • Nira News (from 1935)
      • Years of publication:  1935 to 19??
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Nira News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN99066710
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 42938960
    • The Elkton News (from 1893)
    • The Valley Banner (from 19??)

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Mechanicsville) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Mechanicsville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.6679, Longitude: -78.7878       In this case, the coordinates for Mechanicsville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).