Historic newspapers · Virginia

Virginia historic newspapers: 140,357 free digitised pages

Name: Virginia 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 Virginia 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
Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, D.C.)	1834–1974	26,611
The Daily Dispatch (Richmond [Va.])	1850–1884	9,852
Richmond Dispatch (Richmond, Va.)	1884–1903	5,794
Richmond Enquirer (Richmond, Va.)	1815–1867	5,158
Clarke Courier (Berryville, Va.)	1869–1997	4,117
The Times Dispatch (Richmond, Va.)	1903–1914	4,112
The Times (Richmond, Va.)	1890–1903	4,073
Clinch Valley News (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-		3,793
The Richmond Virginian (Richmond, Va.)	1910–1920	3,636
Peninsula Enterprise (Accomac, Va.)	1881–1965	3,212

Counties

Alexandria 26,611 pages
Richmond 6,155 pages
Tazewell 4,587 pages
Clarke 4,117 pages
Accomack 3,212 pages
Shenandoah 3,190 pages
Henrico 1,985 pages
Prince Edward 1,729 pages
Wise 1,460 pages
Highland 1,223 pages

Cities

Richmond 55,847 pages
Alexandria 36,883 pages
Staunton 6,919 pages
Lynchburg 4,894 pages
Tazewell 4,587 pages
Norfolk 4,271 pages
Berryville 4,117 pages
Jeffersonville 3,793 pages
Accomac 3,212 pages
Woodstock 3,190 pages

By decade

1730 to 1739 170 pages
1740 to 1749 49 pages
1750 to 1759 103 pages
1760 to 1769 282 pages
1770 to 1779 739 pages
1780 to 1789 48 pages
1790 to 1799 22 pages
1800 to 1809 4,606 pages
1810 to 1819 5,545 pages
1820 to 1829 5,797 pages
1830 to 1839 6,035 pages
1840 to 1849 8,145 pages
1850 to 1859 12,534 pages
1860 to 1869 11,387 pages
1870 to 1879 11,772 pages
1880 to 1889 10,907 pages
1890 to 1899 18,206 pages
1900 to 1909 17,925 pages
1910 to 1919 14,911 pages
1920 to 1929 4,961 pages
1930 to 1939 1,631 pages
1940 to 1949 1,915 pages
1950 to 1959 2,106 pages
1960 to 1969 831 pages

Languages

English 138,202 pages
German 2,155 pages

Ethnic press: German, African American, Jewish

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