Historic newspapers · Ohio

Ohio historic newspapers: 109,350 free digitised pages

Name: Ohio 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 Ohio 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
Perrysburg Journal (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-		2,639
Tägliches Cincinnatier Volksblatt (Cincinnati [Ohio])	1885–1919	2,582
The Gazette (Cleveland, Ohio)		2,573
The Stark County Democrat (Canton, Ohio)	1833–1912	2,505
Daily Ohio Statesman (Columbus, Ohio)	1855–1870	2,470
Cleveland Morning Leader (Cleveland [Ohio])	1854–1865	2,114
The Spirit of Democracy (Woodsfield, Ohio)	1844–1994	2,108
Belmont Chronicle (St. Clairsville, Ohio)	1855–1973	1,977
Svět = World (Cleveland, Ohio)	1911–1939	1,815
The Butler County Press (Hamilton, Ohio)	1900–1946	1,743

Counties

Cuyahoga 14,374 pages
Hamilton 9,960 pages
Franklin 5,899 pages
Wood 4,924 pages
Montgomery 4,668 pages
Lucas 3,394 pages
Stark 3,277 pages
Mahoning 3,023 pages
Wayne 2,909 pages
Highland 2,889 pages

Cities

Cleveland 13,664 pages
Cincinnati 9,960 pages
Columbus 5,899 pages
Dayton 3,845 pages
Perrysburg 3,378 pages
Canton 3,277 pages
Toledo 3,231 pages
Detroit 2,909 pages
Hillsboro 2,889 pages
Logan 2,488 pages

By decade

1810 to 1819 126 pages
1820 to 1829 459 pages
1830 to 1839 1,966 pages
1840 to 1849 3,207 pages
1850 to 1859 8,754 pages
1860 to 1869 17,456 pages
1870 to 1879 11,373 pages
1880 to 1889 8,025 pages
1890 to 1899 7,683 pages
1900 to 1909 7,893 pages
1910 to 1919 10,498 pages
1920 to 1929 7,976 pages
1930 to 1939 5,073 pages
1940 to 1949 10,398 pages
1950 to 1959 7,965 pages
1960 to 1969 1,044 pages

Languages

English 103,989 pages
German 9,408 pages
Hungarian 2,417 pages
Czech 2,143 pages
Slovenian 1,440 pages
Polish 1,271 pages
Romanian 1,271 pages
Slovak 880 pages

Ethnic press: German, African American, Hungarian, Czech, Slovenian, Romanian, Slovak, Italian

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