Historic newspapers · Kentucky

Kentucky historic newspapers: 73,741 free digitised pages

Name: Kentucky 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 Kentucky 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
Daily Public Ledger (Maysville, Ky.)		5,691
The Evening Bulletin (Maysville, Ky.)	1887–1905	5,307
Hopkinsville Kentuckian (Hopkinsville, Ky.)	1889–1918	3,501
The Public Ledger (Maysville, Ky.)	1913–1968	2,683
The Hartford Herald (Hartford, Ky.)	1875–1926	2,460
The Bourbon News (Paris, Ky.)		2,427
Semi-Weekly Interior Journal (Stanford, Ky.)	1881–1905	2,414
The Kentucky Gazette (Lexington, Ky.)	1866–1907	2,178
The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, Ky.)	1833–1868	2,177
The Hickman Courier (Hickman, Ky.)		2,018

Counties

Mason 15,527 pages
Jefferson 6,001 pages
Fayette 4,648 pages
Christian 4,634 pages
Lincoln 4,053 pages
Ohio 4,005 pages
McCracken 3,840 pages
Madison 3,725 pages
Bourbon 2,573 pages
Fulton 2,018 pages

Cities

Maysville 15,527 pages
Louisville 6,001 pages
Lexington 4,648 pages
Hopkinsville 4,634 pages
Stanford 4,053 pages
Hartford 4,005 pages
Paducah 3,840 pages
Paris 2,573 pages
Richmond 2,496 pages
Hickman 2,018 pages

By decade

1730 to 1739 2 pages
1740 to 1749 2 pages
1750 to 1759 2 pages
1760 to 1769 2 pages
1770 to 1779 2 pages
1780 to 1789 176 pages
1790 to 1799 491 pages
1800 to 1809 367 pages
1810 to 1819 479 pages
1820 to 1829 186 pages
1830 to 1839 714 pages
1840 to 1849 1,382 pages
1850 to 1859 21 pages
1860 to 1869 1,217 pages
1870 to 1879 2,481 pages
1880 to 1889 6,988 pages
1890 to 1899 14,720 pages
1900 to 1909 21,326 pages
1910 to 1919 16,886 pages
1920 to 1929 6,547 pages
1930 to 1939 110 pages
1940 to 1949 70 pages
1950 to 1959 52 pages
1960 to 1969 50 pages

Languages

English 73,583 pages
German 165 pages

Ethnic press: Irish, German, African American

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