Historic newspapers · Vermont

Vermont historic newspapers: 62,634 free digitised pages

Name: Vermont 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 Vermont 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
The Bennington Evening Banner (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-		5,792
The Barre Daily Times (Barre, Vt.)	1897–1959	5,784
Vermont Phœnix (Brattleboro, Vt.)	1834–1955	3,218
The Manchester Journal (Manchester, Vt.)		3,119
The Brattleboro Daily Reformer (Brattleboro, Vt.)	1913–1955	3,018
Orleans County Monitor (Barton, Vt.)	1872–1953	2,647
St. Johnsbury Caledonian (St. Johnsbury, Vt.)	1867–1919	2,599
Burlington Weekly Free Press (Burlington, Vt.)	1866–1928	2,545
Vermont Watchman and State Journal (Montpelier, Vt.)	1836–1883	2,325
Essex County Herald (Guildhall, Vt.)	1873–1964	2,299

Counties

Washington 14,481 pages
Bennington 9,494 pages
Windham 8,792 pages
Caledonia 5,799 pages
Windsor 5,214 pages
Chittenden 4,042 pages
Addison 3,859 pages
Orleans 3,635 pages
Rutland 3,592 pages
Essex 3,073 pages

Cities

Bennington 9,494 pages
Barre 7,954 pages
Brattleboro 6,787 pages
Montpelier 6,527 pages
Saint Johnsbury 5,799 pages
Bellows Falls 4,489 pages
Burlington 4,042 pages
Middlebury 3,859 pages
Barton 3,398 pages
Ludlow 3,218 pages

By decade

1820 to 1829 3 pages
1830 to 1839 1,105 pages
1840 to 1849 3,902 pages
1850 to 1859 3,269 pages
1860 to 1869 6,196 pages
1870 to 1879 7,468 pages
1880 to 1889 5,394 pages
1890 to 1899 7,088 pages
1900 to 1909 10,661 pages
1910 to 1919 12,984 pages
1920 to 1929 4,703 pages
1930 to 1939 16 pages
1940 to 1949 15 pages
1950 to 1959 14 pages
1960 to 1969 10 pages

Languages

English 61,833 pages
Italian 774 pages
French 27 pages

Ethnic press: French

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