Historic newspapers · West Virginia

West Virginia historic newspapers: 100,715 free digitised pages

Name: West 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 West 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
The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer (Wheeling, W. Va.)	1865–1903	11,054
Wheeling Register (Wheeling, W. Va.)	1878–1935	7,618
The Wheeling Daily Register (Wheeling, W. Va.)	1864–1878	4,172
The Wheeling Intelligencer (Wheeling, W. Va.)	1903–1961	3,673
The Daily Telegram (Clarksburg, W. Va.)	1901–1926	3,612
Shepherdstown Register (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.])	1849–1955	3,355
The Elkins Inter-Mountain (Elkins, W. Va.)	1913–1970	3,217
Virginia Free Press (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.])	1832–1916	3,214
Spirit of Jefferson (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.])	1844–1948	3,117
The Fairmont West Virginian (Fairmont, W. Va.)	1904–1914	3,071

Counties

Ohio 34,238 pages
Jefferson 10,510 pages
Berkeley 8,244 pages
Randolph 6,295 pages
Marion 5,437 pages
Harrison 4,965 pages
Monongalia 3,662 pages
Mason 2,141 pages
Cabell 2,043 pages
Pocahontas 1,888 pages

Cities

Wheeling 34,238 pages
Martinsburg 8,244 pages
Charles Town 6,562 pages
Fairmont 5,437 pages
Clarksburg 4,965 pages
Elkins 4,805 pages
Morgantown 3,662 pages
Shepherdstown 3,619 pages
Point Pleasant 2,141 pages
Huntington 2,043 pages

By decade

1790 to 1799 264 pages
1800 to 1809 329 pages
1810 to 1819 170 pages
1820 to 1829 898 pages
1830 to 1839 1,440 pages
1840 to 1849 2,890 pages
1850 to 1859 4,385 pages
1860 to 1869 6,553 pages
1870 to 1879 9,980 pages
1880 to 1889 12,431 pages
1890 to 1899 16,020 pages
1900 to 1909 17,475 pages
1910 to 1919 19,071 pages
1920 to 1929 7,918 pages
1930 to 1939 457 pages
1940 to 1949 773 pages
1950 to 1959 32 pages
1960 to 1969 28 pages

Languages

English 100,657 pages
Italian 54 pages
German 5 pages

Ethnic press: African American, Italian

Search them by name

Provara's free records search sends one name to these pages and to every other public archive it can reach at once, and returns each hit with its citation. Search West Virginia newspapers by name, free, or browse the collection on loc.gov.

Save what you find to a tree — start free with 1M research tokens

Figures are the Library of Congress's own counts for its Chronicling America collection, fetched from loc.gov and refreshed daily; newspaper pages are public domain and the metadata is CC0. Provara states nothing here about any person.