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West Virginia Newspapers: Home

A guide to the West Virginia Newspapers portal powered by WVU Potomac State College and information on accessing other WV newspapers.

Titles covered

Grant County:

  • Grant County Press (1896-1925)

Hampshire County:

  • Hampshire Review (1884-1925)
  • South Branch Intelligencer (1866-1896; scattered issues)

Hardy County:

  • Hardy County News (1897-1902)
  • Moorefield Examiner (1902-1925)

Mineral County:

  • Elk Garden News (1889-1892)
  • Frankfort Beacon (2009-2016)
  • Mineral Daily News Tribune (1911-) (= Keyser Tribune, Mineral Daily News, Mountain Echo)
  • Pasquino (1921-)
  • Piedmont Herald (1887-2006)

 

Click here to access the West Virginia Newspapers Portal

(click the above link to access the West Virginia Newspapers Portal)

For Help with the West Virginia Newspapers Portal

These tutorials will help you better understand how to use our Advantage Community History Archive to find things in the newspaper collection.

To learn how to do basic functions, visit the Navigating the Site page. There you will find more videos and handouts.

To learn how to do more advanced searching, visit the Advanced Search Tips page. There you will find more videos and handouts.

To learn how to handle images you find on the newspaper site, visit the Image Handling Tips page. There you will find more videos and handouts.

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Special Thanks

Funding for this project was provided by Potomac State College, Denny Avers (class of 1961), and many other donors.

This project would not have been possible without the cooperation of: