Benton County, Washington Newspapers
Below is a sortable list of historical Benton County, Washington Newspapers, compiled November, 2013. It provides: 1) links to online copies before 1950's; and libraries where hard copies can be found
The newspapers are listed by the area they served, so some may have been published in other counties or even out of state.
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Newspapers have increasingly come online starting in the late 1980's. See OnlineNewspapers.com, RefDesk.com, or do a Google search for Online Newspapers. |
Sortable Table
This key is a list of sites used when the list was originally compiled in November, 2013. As you find other early newspapers, please update the key as well as the sortable table.
| Code | Site name | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| A.com | Ancestry.com | ($) |
| CA | Chronicling America | Select State, then County, and click Search. Click on a title, then on "Libraries that have it" |
| GB | Genealogy Bank | ($) Several types of search options |
| NA | Newspaper Archive | ($) Scroll down and click Browse by location. Under "United States," select "Washington" |
| NP.com | Newspapers.com | ($) Select Washington from dropdown list in "Location" search field |
| Own | The link is to the newspaper's own site | |
| SOS | Washington Secretary of State | |
| Town | Title of Newspaper | Years Published |
Libraries with copies | Online | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Day | Black eagle news | 197?-???? | CA | ||
| Kennewick | The Kennewick courier-reporter [microform] | 1939-1949 | CA | ||
| Kennewick | The courier-herald [microform] | 1949-1950 | CA | ||
| Richland | The Richland villager | 1945-1950 | CA | ||
| Prosser | The Prosser record | 1893-1913 | CA | ||
| Hanford | The Hanford columbian | 1908-1916 | CA | ||
| Prosser | Benton County independent | 1922-1943 | CA | ||
| Hover | Finley-Hover Columbian | 19??-19?? | CA | ||
| Prosser | The independent record | 1913-1920 | CA | ||
| Prosser | The Prosser American | 189?-1??? | CA | ||
| Prosser | Prosser record-bulletin | 1920-current | CA | ||
| Kennewick | The Kennewick courier-reporter and the White Bluffs spokesman | 1938-1939 | CA | ||
| White Bluffs | White Bluffs spokesman | 1907-1938 | CA | ||
| Hanford | The Hanford herald | 1922-19?? | CA | ||
| Kennewick | Kennewick reporter | 1908-1909 | CA | ||
| Kennewick | Twin City reporter | 1909-1911 | CA | ||
| Kennewick | Kennewick reporter | 1911-1914 | CA | ||
| Richland | Richland review | 1968-current | CA | ||
| West Richland | The West Richlander | 1968-current | CA | ||
| Kennewick | The Kennewick courier-reporter | 1914-1938 | CA | CA | |
Sources Used
This list was first generated (October 2013) from:
- Chronicling America's "US Newspaper Directory, 1690–present"[1]
- Washington Secretary of State
- University of Washington
References
- ↑ Library of Congress Chronicling America, accessed October 2013