Historic newspapers · Mississippi

Mississippi historic newspapers: 63,335 free digitised pages

Name: Mississippi 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 Mississippi 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
Memphis Daily Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)	1847–1886	8,073
The Hattiesburg News (Hattiesburg, Miss.)	1908–1917	2,509
The Grenada Sentinel (Grenada, Miss.)	1868–1955	2,077
Macon Beacon (Macon, Miss.)	1859–1995	2,003
The Lexington Advertiser (Lexington, Miss.)	1904–1985	1,963
The Southern Herald (Liberty, Miss.)		1,715
The Greenville Times (Greenville, Miss.)	1868–1917	1,666
Oxford Eagle (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.)		1,631
The Pascagoula Democrat-Star (Pascagoula, Miss.)	1878–1920	1,490
The Sea Coast Echo (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.)		1,456

Counties

Hinds 12,185 pages
Grenada 10,353 pages
Warren 8,234 pages
Shelby 8,218 pages
Montgomery 8,081 pages
Bibb 8,073 pages
Dallas 8,073 pages
De Soto 8,073 pages
Fulton 8,073 pages
Spalding 8,073 pages

Cities

Jackson 12,175 pages
Grenada 10,353 pages
Macon 10,270 pages
Hernando 8,476 pages
Vicksburg 8,234 pages
Memphis 8,218 pages
Atlanta 8,073 pages
Griffin 8,073 pages
Montgomery 8,073 pages
Selma 8,073 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 2 pages
1790 to 1799 2 pages
1800 to 1809 19 pages
1810 to 1819 19 pages
1820 to 1829 31 pages
1830 to 1839 1,117 pages
1840 to 1849 3,334 pages
1850 to 1859 3,008 pages
1860 to 1869 4,450 pages
1870 to 1879 5,932 pages
1880 to 1889 7,343 pages
1890 to 1899 6,093 pages
1900 to 1909 11,217 pages
1910 to 1919 12,050 pages
1920 to 1929 3,380 pages
1930 to 1939 767 pages
1940 to 1949 2,732 pages
1950 to 1959 1,488 pages
1960 to 1969 1,175 pages

Languages

English 63,335 pages

Ethnic press: African American

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