West Virginia and Regional History Center | Newspapers Available Online (2024)

Available to the Public through Chronicling America:

Some of our West Virginia newspaper holdings can be accessed online through the Chronicling America website hosted by the Library of Congress. A list of newspapers currently available is below, organized by city--more will be coming soon!

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Bluefield:

• Bluefield Evening Leader(April 8, 1906 - Dec. 31, 1910issues)

Bramwell:

• Flat Top Monitor (Feb. 5, 1891 - April 9, 1891 issues)

Charleston:

• The Advocate (Feb. 7, 1907 - Nov. 14, 1912 issues)
• The Charleston Advocate(July 1, 1894 – Jan. 1, 1895 issues)
• The Guerilla(Sept. 29, 1862 – Oct. 3, 1862 issues)
• Kanawha Valley Star (March 2, 1858 and March 19, 1861 issues)
• The Labor Argus (May 24, 1906 - Dec. 28, 1911 issues)
• The Temperance Star(Nov. 30, 1874 issue)
• The West Virginia Journal(Oct. 26, 1864 – June 2, 1869 issues)

Charles Town:

• Spirit of Jefferson (Sept. 27, 1844 - Dec. 25, 1900 issues)
• Virginia Free Press & Farmers' Repository(Jan. 6, 1830 - July 12, 1832 issues)
  
• Virginia Free Press (July 19, 1832 - Sept. 9, 1896 issues)
• West Virginia Democrat (Jan. 7, 1887 - Dec. 21, 1888 issues)

Clarksburg:

• The Clarksburg Telegram (Jan. 20, 1893 - Dec. 26, 1912 issues)
• Cooper’s Clarksburg Register (Nov. 12, 1851 - Nov. 19, 1858 issues)
• The Daily Telegram (Dec. 11, 1902 - Dec. 30, 1916 issues)
• The Sunday Telegram (Nov. 29, 1914 - Dec. 31, 1916 issues)

Ceredo

• Ceredo Advance (Oct. 15, 1885 - Nov. 17, 1915 issues)
• Ceredo Crescent(October 24, 1857 - Oct. 20, 1860 issues)

Fairmont:

• The Fairmont West Virginian (April 19, 1904 - Dec. 30, 1922 issues)
• The West Virginian (Dec. 09, 1914 - Dec. 30, 1922 issues)

Gauley Bridge:

• The Knapsack(Sept. 3, 1863 - Nov. 5, 1863 issues)

Grantsville:

• The Calhoun Chronicle (Jan. 15, 1884 – Dec. 27, 1923issues)

Hinton:

• The Hinton Republican (March 2, 1882 – Dec. 28, 1882issues)

Huntington:

• Huntington Advertiser (Jan. 15, 1874 - Feb. 24, 1876 issues)
• The Huntington Argus (May 25, 1872 - March 12, 1885 issues)
• Huntington Independent (April 24, 1873 - Jan, 8, 1874 issues)
• The Socialist and Labor Star (May 31, 1912 – Jan. 1, 1915 issues)

Keystone:

• The McDowell Times(May 9, 1913 - Nov. 28, 1941issues)

Kingwood:

• West Virginia Argus(Sept. 8, 1877 - Dec. 28, 1916 issues)
• The Kingwood Chronicle (Jan. 26, 1861 - Aug. 17, 1861 issues)

Lewisburg:

• The Greenbrier Era(Jan. 14, 1854 – Aug. 19, 1854 issues)
• Greenbrier Independent (May 22, 1860 – Dec. 29, 1922 issues)
• Greenbrier Weekly Era (Sept. 16, 1854 – May 25, 1861 issues)

Martinsburg:

• American Union (Civil War paper printed by Union troops, July 4-11, 1861 issues)
• Pioneer Press (Jan. 7, 1911 – Sept. 22, 1917 issues)
• Evening Journal (Nov. 1, 1907 - Oct. 31, 1912 issues)
• Martinsburg Gazette and Public Advertiser (Jan. 5, 1826 - Oct. 10, 1833 issues)
• Martinsburg Gazette (Oct. 17, 1833 - March 7, 1855 issues)
• Martinsburg Herald (Nov. 26, 1881 - Dec. 28, 1918 issues)
• Martinsburg Independent (April 3, 1875 - Dec. 23, 1899 issues)
  
• Martinsburg W. Va. Evening Journal (Feb. 1, 1916 - Dec. 31, 1917 issues)
• Martinsburg Weekly Independent (Jan. 3, 1874 - March 27, 1875 issues)
• Martinsburgh Gazette (July 27, 1810 - Dec. 29, 1825 issues)

Morgantown:

• Monongalia Mirror (Jan. 03, 1852 - June 23, 1855 issues)
• The Morgantown Monitor(Feb. 14, 1863 – Feb. 13, 1864 issues)
• American Union (continuation of the Monongalia Mirror, June 30, 1855 – March 25, 1859 issue)

Philippi:

• The Old Flag (April 7, 1869 – Dec. 2, 1869 issues)

Point Pleasant:

• The Point Pleasant Register (April 7, 1909 - Dec. 28, 1910 issues)
• The Weekly Register (March 6, 1862 - Jan. 27, 1909 issues)

Pruntytown:

• The Family Visitor (Jan. 20, 1860 - Nov. 2, 1860 issues

Romney:

• South Branch Intelligencer(June 24, 1837– Dec. 24, 1896 issues)

Shepherdstown:

• Shepherdstown Register (Dec. 4, 1849 – Dec. 21, 1922 issues)

Sistersville:

• Sistersville Daily Oil Review (Aug. 6, 1902 – April 29, 1905 issues)
• Sistersville Daily Review (May 1, 1905 – June 30, 1905 issues)
• Sistersville Oil Review(Jan. 12, 1898– Dec. 28, 1898 issues)
• West Virginia Daily Oil Review(July 15, 1898 – Aug. 5, 1902 issues)

Thomas:

• La Sentinella del West Virginia (Feb. 18, 1911 - May 11, 1912 issues)

Volcano:

• The Volcano Lubricator (Oct. 26, 1871 - March 19, 1874 issues)
• West Virginia Walking Beam (Aug. 13, 1879 - Dec. 4, 1880 issues)

Weston:

• The Democrat (Dec. 1, 1868 - Dec. 28, 1874 issues)
• The Weston Democrat (Jan. 4, 1875 - Dec. 25, 1880 issues)

Wheeling:

• Wheeling Daily Intelligencer (August 24, 1852 - November 11, 1859issues)
• Daily Intelligencer (November 12, 1859 - June 24, 1865 issues)
• The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer (June 26, 1865 - December 31, 1900 issues)
• The Daily Register (September 08, 1863 - December 16, 1864 issues)
• The Wheeling Daily Register (December 17, 1864 - June 29, 1878 issues)
• The Wheeling Intelligencer (April 1, 1911 – Dec. 30, 1922 issues)
• Wheeling Register (Nov. 7, 1878 – Aug. 31, 1897 issues)
• Wheeling Sunday Register (Aug. 13, 1882 - Aug. 29, 1897 issues)
• Wheeling Times and Advertiser (Jan. 2, 1840 - Dec. 28, 1848 issues)
• Virginia Statesman (Jan. 2, 1828 - June 24, 1829 issues)
• Wheeling Compiler (July 1, 1829 - Dec. 29, 1830 issues)
• The Wheeling Repository (March 5, 1807 - May 5, 1808 issues)

Available to the public through Google News:

Berkeley Springs:

• The Morgan Messenger , 1980-2009, sporadic

Charles Town:

• Farmers Advocate , 1938 -1948
• Spirit of Jefferson Farmer's Advocate , 1949 -1953
• The Spirit of Thanksgiving , 2005 - 2008, sporadic

Elizabeth:

• Wirt County Journal , 2006 - 2009, sporadic

Glenville:

• Glenville Democrat , 1978 -2009, sporadic

Hinton:

• Hinton News , 1945 -2009, sporadic

Lewisburg:

• Mountain Messenger , 2005 - 2009, sporadic

Petersburg:

• Grant County Press , 1944 -2009, sporadic

Pennsboro:

• The Pennsboro News , 1979 - 2009, sporadic

Spencer:

• Roane County Reporter , 1930 -2008, sporadic
• Times Record , 1940 -2008, sporadic

St. Marys:

• St. Marys Oracle , 1952 -2009, sporadic

Sutton:

• Braxton Citizens' News , 2005 - 2009, sporadic

Wellsburg:

• The Brooke County Review , 1994 - 2009, sporadic

Westwood:

• The Preston County Journal , 2005 - 2009, sporadic

Williamson:

• Williamson Daily News , 1948 -2000, sporadic

Additional Websites of WV Newspapers:

A selection of Mineral County and other newspapers have been digitized and are available through West Virginia Newspapers , thanks to the hard work of our colleagues atPotomac State College & Mary F. Shipper Library.

Cyndi's List's webpage of West Virginia newspapers lists various sites (free and subscription-based) which host WV newspaper content.

Available to WVU Community Members:

These databases are available on-campus to anyone in the WVRHC, and are available off-campus to current WVU-Morgantown students, faculty, and staff.

America's News
Full-text U.S. newspapers, including 26 from West Virginia. Includes staff-written articles, obituaries, editorials, announcements, real estate and other sections.

Newspaper Source (Courtesy of WVInfoDepot)
Includes the Morgantown Dominion Post plus cover-to-cover full text for 28 national(US) and international newspapers and selected full text for more than 260 regional newspapers. Provided by the West Virginia Library Commission with funds from the WV State Legislature and the Library Services and Technology Act administered by the Institute of Library and Museum Services.