Historic newspapers · Maryland

Maryland historic newspapers: 77,708 free digitised pages

Name: Maryland 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 Maryland 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
Der Deutsche Correspondent (Baltimore, Md.)	1841–1918	16,624
Montgomery County Sentinel (Rockville, Md.)	1855–1974	5,139
Evening Capital (Annapolis, Md.)	1884–1910	4,408
The Republican (Oakland, Md.)		4,373
The Cecil Whig (Elkton, Md.)		3,904
The Midland Journal (Rising Sun, Md.)	1885–1947	3,204
The Democratic Advocate (Westminster, Md.)	1865–1972	3,066
Evening Capital and Maryland Gazette (Annapolis, Md.)	1910–1922	2,613
Catoctin Clarion (Mechanicstown, Md.)	1871–1940	2,588
Baltimore Wecker (Baltimore [Md.])	1851–1867	2,468

Counties

Anne Arundel 7,365 pages
Cecil 7,108 pages
Montgomery 5,139 pages
Garrett 4,373 pages
Frederick 3,379 pages
Carroll 3,066 pages
Prince George's 2,945 pages
Saint Mary's 2,828 pages
Allegany 2,763 pages
Charles 2,673 pages

Cities

Baltimore 26,976 pages
Annapolis 7,274 pages
Gaithersburg 5,139 pages
Rockville 5,139 pages
Oakland 4,373 pages
Elkton 3,904 pages
Rising Sun 3,204 pages
Westminster 3,066 pages
Leonardtown 2,733 pages
Port Tobacco 2,673 pages

By decade

1800 to 1809 1 pages
1810 to 1819 1 pages
1820 to 1829 2 pages
1830 to 1839 14 pages
1840 to 1849 1,443 pages
1850 to 1859 2,503 pages
1860 to 1869 6,149 pages
1870 to 1879 8,142 pages
1880 to 1889 10,392 pages
1890 to 1899 10,393 pages
1900 to 1909 11,859 pages
1910 to 1919 12,379 pages
1920 to 1929 5,951 pages
1930 to 1939 2,774 pages
1940 to 1949 3,295 pages
1950 to 1959 1,906 pages
1960 to 1969 750 pages

Languages

English 53,570 pages
German 21,504 pages
Czech 1,775 pages
Polish 430 pages
Italian 429 pages

Ethnic press: German, Czech, Italian, Polish, African American

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