Newspaper Databases

• Rising Sun Newspaper Index (1833-1860)

Newspapers

Indiana Newspaper Bibliography by John W. Miller (Indiana Historical Society, 1982) contains details about all Ohio County, Indiana newspapers. It also details surviving newspapers as well as the holdings of Indiana repositories.

A list of the Ohio County newspapers available at the Indiana State Library in Indianapolis is online.

Digital images of any newspaper citation found on the Indiana’s Gore website are available via Record Requests.

The following is a list of Ohio County newspapers, along with a date range of surviving newspapers. Editions within those ranges may not survive. Newspapers that have been digitized and are available online are also noted.

Rising Sun Newspapers

• Herald (1850-1851)
• Herald and Mirror (1851)
• Hoosier Paper (1864-1865)
• Hoosier Patriot (1852)
  • Online (1852) – Hoosier State Chronicles (free)
• Indiana Blade (1843-1845)
• Indiana Democrat (1858)
  • Online (1858) – Hoosier State Chronicles (free)
• Indiana Oasis (1878)
  • Online (1878) – Hoosier State Chronicles (free)
• Indiana Patriot (1840-1841)
• Indiana Republican (1851-1854)
• Indiana Weekly Visitor (1854-1959)
  • 1857-1860 – Online at Newspaper Archive ($)
• Indiana Whig (1848-1850)
  • Online at Newspaper Archive ($)
• Journal (1838-1840)
• Local (1879-1912)
• Mirror (1849-1851)
  • Online at Newspaper Archive ($)
• Neutral Pennant (1853-1854)
  • Online (1853-1854) – Hoosier State Chronicles (free)
• Weekly News (1854)
  • Online (1854) – Hoosier State Chronicles (free)
• Saturday News (1874-1879)
• Observer and Recorder (1865)
• Ohio County News (1912-1974)
• Ohio County Recorder (1868-1874)
• Recorder (1865-1978)
• Rising Sun (1833-1834)
  • Online at Newspaper Archive ($)
• Times (1834-1837)
  • Online (1833-1837) – Hoosier State Chronicles (free)
  • 1834-1835 – Online at Newspaper Archive ($)
• Times and Farmers’ Journal (1837)
• True Whig (1850)
  • Online at Newspaper Archive ($)