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Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Shirley 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 Shirley. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Shirley. Our list contains 111 papers that were published within 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> of Shirley.

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 Shirley.  

Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load.

Newspapers Neighboring Shirley ...

The following newspapers were published within 11 miles [17.7 km] of Shirley.

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

  • Published In Hopewell [Hopewell City] ...
  • Published In Charles City  ...
  • Published In Chester [Chesterfield County] ...
  • Published In Roxbury  ...
    • Camp Chickahominy Clarion (from 1939)
    • Camp Life (from 1940)
      • Years of publication:  1940 to 1941
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Camp Life
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN99066771
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 42413988
  • Published In Centralia [Chesterfield County] ...
  • Published In Petersburg [Petersburg City] ...
    • We know of 111 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Petersburg. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Petersburg
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> of Shirley. This extended list includes all the papers from Petersburg. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Shirley.

      Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load

The official website for Chronicling America

Unfortunately, we don't know of an official website for Shirley. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Charles City County: www.co.charles-city.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 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Shirley) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Shirley. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.3418, Longitude: -77.2605       In this case, the coordinates for Shirley have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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