Historic newspapers · Florida

Florida historic newspapers: 56,445 free digitised pages

Name: Florida historic newspapers (Chronicling America)
Creator: Library of Congress
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Everything below is what the Library of Congress holds online for Florida in Chronicling America, counted on 2026-10-06. The pages are free to read and searchable by name; an obituary or a marriage notice here is often the only record of a date before civil registration.

Titles with the most digitised pages

Newspaper	Years	Pages online
The Ocala Evening Star (Ocala, Fla.)	1895–1943	8,030
The Key West Citizen (Key West, Fla.)		7,911
La Gaceta (Tampa, Fla.)		7,688
The Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, Fla.)	1898–1985	5,953
The Lakeland Evening Telegram (Lakeland, Fla.)	1911–1922	3,067
Diario Las Américas (Miami, Fla.; Miami Springs, Fla.)		2,176
Gadsden County Times (Quincy, Fla.) 190?-Current		1,866
Gainesville Daily Sun (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-		1,585
The Brooksville Journal (Brooksville, Fla.) 192?-		1,575
The Daytona Daily News (Daytona, Fla.)	1903–1925	1,298

Counties

Marion 9,112 pages
Hillsborough 8,704 pages
Monroe 7,915 pages
Escambia 6,020 pages
Dade 3,656 pages
Polk 3,067 pages
Hernando 2,950 pages
Gadsden 2,221 pages
Miami-Dade 2,176 pages
Putnam 2,127 pages

Cities

Ocala 9,112 pages
Tampa 8,704 pages
Ybor City 8,657 pages
Key West 7,915 pages
Pensacola 6,020 pages
Miami 3,656 pages
Lakeland 3,067 pages
Brooksville 2,950 pages
Miami Springs 2,176 pages
Palatka 2,064 pages

By decade

1730 to 1739 1 pages
1740 to 1749 1 pages
1750 to 1759 1 pages
1760 to 1769 1 pages
1770 to 1779 1 pages
1780 to 1789 1 pages
1790 to 1799 1 pages
1800 to 1809 2 pages
1810 to 1819 2 pages
1820 to 1829 2 pages
1830 to 1839 2 pages
1840 to 1849 2 pages
1850 to 1859 2 pages
1860 to 1869 3 pages
1870 to 1879 89 pages
1880 to 1889 1,778 pages
1890 to 1899 2,118 pages
1900 to 1909 10,440 pages
1910 to 1919 11,647 pages
1920 to 1929 5,595 pages
1930 to 1939 6,565 pages
1940 to 1949 7,786 pages
1950 to 1959 7,622 pages
1960 to 1969 3,038 pages

Languages

English 56,395 pages
Spanish 10,833 pages
Italian 8,337 pages

Ethnic press: Latin American, Cuban, Italian, Jewish, African American

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