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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Sampson 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 Sampson. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Sampson. Our list contains 81 papers that were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> of Sampson.

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 Sampson.  

Newspapers Neighboring Sampson ...

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

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

  • Published In Grottoes  ...
    • The Whippoorwill (from 1935)
  • Published In Waynesboro [Waynesboro City] ...
  • Published In Crozet [Albemarle County] ...
  • Published In Lyndhurst  ...
  • Published In Staunton [Staunton City] ...
    • We know of 72 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Staunton. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Staunton
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> of Sampson. This extended list includes all the papers from Staunton. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Sampson
  • Published In Mount Crawford [Rockingham County] ...
    • Our Assistant (from 1898)
  • Published In Bridgewater [Rockingham County] ...

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- Sampson) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sampson. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.1742, Longitude: -78.8474       In this case, the coordinates for Sampson have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).