Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Portsmouth.
Our newspaper information for Portsmouth is based on data taken from the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.
The following list contains the names of 40 papers that were published in the immediate area of Portsmouth. In addition, the list contains another 160 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Portsmouth. In total, we've identified 200 papers within Less than 2 miles<1> of Portsmouth.
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 Portsmouth.
Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load.
Newspapers Published In Portsmouth ...
We know of 40 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Portsmouth:
- Black Net Working (from 198?)
- Chronicle And Old Dominion (from 1843)
- Clay Banner, And Commercial And Naval Intelligencer (from 1842)
- Commercial Chronicle, And The Portsmouth And Norfolk Tri-Weekly Old Dominion (from 1839)
- Commercial Chronicle (from 1839)
- Daily District Whig, And Commercial Register For The Port Of Norfolk And Portsmouth (from 185?)
- Daily Transcript (from 18??)
- Diocesan Journal : The Missionary Organ Of The Diocese Of Southern Virginia (from 1894)
- District Whig And Commercial Register For The Port Of Norfolk And Portsmouth (from 18??)
- Old Dominion (from 1838)
- Portsmouth And Norfolk Commercial Gazette (from 1833)
- Portsmouth Daily Times (from 1877)
- Continue List (28 more) ...
- Portsmouth Enterprise (from 1873)
- Portsmouth Republican And Virginia Commercial Gazette (from 1829)
- Portsmouth Times (from 1878)
- Public Index (from 1844)
- Republican And Weekly Times (from 1839)
- S.A.L.magundi (from 1895)
- The first year of publication was in 1895, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the S.A.L.magundi
- Holdings for: LCCN SN95079598
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 12641082
- Southern Virginia Churchman : The Official Organ Of The Diocese Of Southern Virginia (from 1894)
- Southern Whig (from 1843)
- The Chronicle And Old Dominion (from 1847)
- The Clay Banner And Commercial And Naval Intelligencer (from 1842)
- The Daily Globe (from 1853)
- The Daily Pilot (from 1848)
- The Daily Transcript (from 186?)
- The Daily Transcript (from 1849)
- The Daily Whig And Commercial Register For The Port Of Norfolk And Portsmouth (from 18??)
- The Independent Daily Messenger (from 1843)
- The New Era (from 1845)
- The Portsmouth Star (from 1894)
- The Portsmouth Times, And Commercial Advertiser (from 1835)
- The Portsmouth Times (from 1981)
- The Republican (from 1838)
- The Southern Statesman (from 1857)
- The Star Of Virginia (from 1854)
- The Tidewater Times (from 1878)
- The Virginia Granger (from 1879)
- The Weekly Pilot (from 1849)
- The Weekly Transcript (from 1857)
- Times And Republican (from 1840)
Newspapers Neighboring Portsmouth ...
The following newspapers were published within Less than 2 miles<1> of Portsmouth.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Portsmouth.
- Published In Norfolk [Norfolk City] ...
- We know of 160 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Norfolk. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Norfolk
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within Less than 2 miles<1> of Portsmouth. This extended list includes all the papers from Norfolk. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Portsmouth.
Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Chronicling America
The official website for Portsmouth: www.ci.portsmouth.va.us/
The official website for State of Virginia: https://www.virginia.gov/
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- Portsmouth) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Portsmouth. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.8352, Longitude: -76.3069 |