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Vermont Newspapers
ACollection: Chronicling America: Vermont Newspapers
ACollection: Vermont Digital Newspaper Project
Bradford: Journal Opinion 2005-2009
Brattleboro: Tariff Reform Record 1890
Published by the Vermont Tariff Reform League
Burlington & Rutland: Burlington Free Press/Rutland Herald Newspaper Index 1984-2009
This is only an index. The database does not include the full text of the articles.
Charlotte: Digital Archives of the Charlotte News 1958-2016
Hinesburg: Out in the Mountains 1986-2007
LGBT newspaper
Montpelier: Universalist Watchman, and Christian Repository 1844-1846
Richford: Digital Archives of the Arvin A. Brown Public Library 1881-1957
Many years are missing
St. Johnsbury: Caledonian Record 1997-2011
Searching is free, but there is a cost to retrieve the full text of an article.
Virginia Newspapers
ACollection: Chronicling America: Virginia Newspapers
ACollection: Digital Library Prince William Documents, Data, and Images
Scroll down the page to the section of newspapers.
ACollection: Fairfax County Historical Newspaper Index 1785-2000
Most newspapers in this index are index only; no full text. The Fairfax News (1872-1875) and The Rambler, Washington Star (1912-1928) include full text.
Geography of Slavery in Virginia
A database of ads from 18th & 19th century Virginia newspapers for runaway and captured enslaved people
ACollection: Pulaski County Newspaper Archives 1893, 1906-2011
ACollection: Race & Place: Newspapers 1890-1935
Transcribed articles from two African American newspapers: Charlottesville Reflector and Richmond Planet.
ACollection: Virgiinia Memory: Virginia Newspapers
ACollection: Virginia Chronicle
A searchable database of Virginia newspapers.
Bedford: Spirit of '76 1935
Civilian Conservation Corps newspaper
Charlottesville: Cavalier Daily 1890-1996
Student newspaper from the University of Virginia
Charlottesville: Daily Progress 1893-1964
Newspaper from the University of Virginia
Charlottesville: Reflector 1933
African American newspaper
This includes only selected articles
Fredericksburg: Bullet 1922-2011
Student newspaper from the University of Mary Washington
Fredericksburg: Daily Star 1893-1926
Fredericksburg: Daily Star 1917-1918
Fredericksburg: Fredericksburg Ledger 1865-1874
Fredericksburg: Fredericksburg News 1849-1862
Fredericksburg: Fredericksburg Newspaper Indexes 1736-1926
Scroll down to the Fredericksburg Newspapers section of this page. These are all only indexes; they don't include online full text.
Fredericksburg: Fredericksburg Star 1898-1900
Fredericksburg: Free Lance-Star 1920-2006
Fredericksburg: Free Lance 1885-1925
Fredericksburg: News 1873-1878, 1883-1884
This file also includes newspapers from Louisiana, Maryland, Ohio, and California.
Fredericksburg: Sunday Free Lance-Star 1998-2003
Fredericksburg: Virginia Herald 1792-1795, 1807-1809
Hampton: Southern Workman 1872-1886
Hampton: True Southerner 1865-1866
Hillsville: Carroll News 1980-1984
King George: King George Journal 2006-2009
King George: Westmoreland Journal 2006-2008
Lexington: Southern Collegian 1879-1881
Newspaper from Washington College
Marion: Patriot and Herald 1872-1887
Norfolk: Norfolk & Portsmouth Herald 1811-1813, 1818-1820, 1824-1825, 1828-1830, 1835-1837, 1839, 1845, 1847
Norfolk: Norfolk and Portsmouth Herald 1810-1821, 1826-1828, 1830-1833
Norfolk: Norfolk Gazette and Publick Ledger 1804-1816
Norfolk: Norfolk Herald 1802-1803
Petersburg: Afro-American Churchman 1886-1890
Petersburg: Daily Express 1856
This file also includes issues of the Daily Press, published in 1873-1877 in Adrian, MI.
Petersburg (VA) Public Library Newspaper Index
Petersburg: Progress 1871
Petersburg: Rural Messenger 1872-1875, 1879-1884
Richmond: Collegian 1914-2012
Student newspaper from the University of Richmond
Richmond: Daily Richmond Enquirer 1860-1862
Richmond: Examiner 1801-1804
Richmond: Newspaper Index: Richmond Times Dispatch, Richmond News Leader 1940s-1985
This is only an index. The full text of the articles is not available online.
Richmond: Record of News, History & Literature 1863
Richmond: Record of News, History and Literature 1863
Richmond: Richmond Afro-American 1947
African American newspaper
Richmond: Richmond Daily Dispatch 1860-1865
Richmond: Richmond Enquirer 1861, 1871-1872
Richmond: Virginia Argus 1799-1802, 1804-1805, 1810-1811, 1816
Richmond: Virginia gazette, and general advertiser 1790-1792
Roanoke: Roanoke Times 1992-1997
Saint Paul: Clinch Valley Times 2006-2009
Staunton: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War -Era Newspapers 1857-1870
Staunton: Valley Virginian 1866-1874, 1877-1894
Williamsburg: Flat Hat 1911-2009
Student newspaper of the College of William and Mary
Virginia Gazette 1736-1780 (Williamsburg)
Williamsburg: Virginia Gazette 1774-1775, 1791-1803, 1807-1809
Williamsburg: Virginia Gazette and General Advertiser 1803-1805
Winchester: Winchester Virginian 1855-1859, 1861-1862, 1873
This file includes only very scattered issues.
Yorktown: Ye olde York times 1936
Civilian Conservation Corps newspaper
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