Historic newspapers · Tennessee

Tennessee historic newspapers: 59,548 free digitised pages

Name: Tennessee 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 Tennessee 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
Public Ledger (Memphis, Tenn.)	1865–1893	5,466
Nashville Union and American (Nashville, Tenn.)	1853–1862	2,659
Nashville Union and American (Nashville, Tenn.)	1868–1875	2,126
Knoxville Daily Chronicle (Knoxville, Tenn.)	1870–1882	2,012
The Camden Chronicle (Camden, Tenn.)		1,599
The Comet (Johnson City, Tenn.)	1884–1916	1,553
The Columbia Herald (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-		1,493
Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, Tenn.)	1850–1966	1,376
Sequachee Valley News (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.)	1896–1952	1,269

Counties

Shelby 15,472 pages
Montgomery 10,423 pages
Davidson 10,235 pages
Warren 8,627 pages
Dallas 8,302 pages
Bibb 8,073 pages
De Soto 8,073 pages
Fulton 8,073 pages
Grenada 8,073 pages
Hinds 8,073 pages

Cities

Memphis 15,472 pages
Nashville 10,235 pages
Selma 8,302 pages
Jackson 8,249 pages
Atlanta 8,073 pages
Grenada 8,073 pages
Griffin 8,073 pages
Hernando 8,073 pages
Macon 8,073 pages
Montgomery 8,073 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 4 pages
1810 to 1819 4 pages
1820 to 1829 4 pages
1830 to 1839 5 pages
1840 to 1849 9 pages
1850 to 1859 5,763 pages
1860 to 1869 10,548 pages
1870 to 1879 14,361 pages
1880 to 1889 9,205 pages
1890 to 1899 4,635 pages
1900 to 1909 3,324 pages
1910 to 1919 8,864 pages
1920 to 1929 3,039 pages
1930 to 1939 37 pages
1940 to 1949 31 pages
1950 to 1959 29 pages
1960 to 1969 28 pages

Languages

English 59,443 pages
German 823 pages

Ethnic press: German, African American

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