From: Nicole Kilgore Pinson <pinson@secis.com>
To: "DEEP-SOUTH-ROOTS genealogy list" <DEEP-SOUTH-ROOTS@rmgate.pop.indiana.edu>
Subject: early   Alabama  Newspapers 
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 17:41:30 -0500

>From Thomas McAdory Owen's  "History of Alabama and Dictionary of
Alabama Biography",  1921,  vol. II

"Mobile Centinel"	issued at Ft. Stoddert 	May 23, 1811  
"Mobile Gazette and Advertiser"  [the "Gazette"]	1815   
"Mobile Register"  1821,   acquired by purchase in 1823, the "Mobile
Gazette"
"The Halcyon"	 St. Stephens	1815
"Montgomery Advertiser"	 1828
"The Moulton Advertiser"	1828
"Selma Times-Journal"  ["Selma Times"]  1825
"The Talladega Reporter"   May 16, 1843 by the consolidation of the
"Alabama Reporter", the "Watchtower", and the "News"
"Alabamian-Dispatch"   Tuscumbia  1831
"Troy Messenger" 1866
"Union Springs Herald" 1866
"Tuskegee News"  1865
"Russell Register" (Seale) 1875
"The Huntsville Republican"  1816,  name later changed to "Alabama
Republican"  Sept 15, 1820  and succeeded by the "Southern Advocate and
Huntsville Advertiser"  May 6, 1825.
"The Democrat" 	 Huntsville  
"The Jacksonville Republican"  	Jacksonville, Calhoun Co,  prior to 1837
until 1893
"The Florence Register and Public Advertiser"  1825
"Enquirer"  1840  	Florence
"The Alabama Sentinel"    Greensboro, Hale Co., 1832
"Alabama Journal"   Montogmery   late 1820s  continued in existence as
the "State Journal" until  after 1874
"The Clark County Post"    Suggsville   Apr 1836
"The Democrat Watchtower"    Talladega  1840
"The Patriot"    Talladega   1838
"Southern Register"    Talladega  1834
"The Alabama State Intelligencer"    Tuscaloosa  Apr 10, 1829
"The State Rights Expositor and Spirit of the Press"   in existence in
Tuscaloosa 1823
"Flag of the Union"   in existence in Tuscaloosa in 1823
"The Indenpendent Monitor"    Tuscaloosa  1836	succeeded by the
"Tuscaloosa Blade"    Sept 5, 1872
"The Franklin Advertiser"    Tuscumbia   Aug 1872
"The North Alabamian"   1872
"Alabamian Dispatch"
"The Wetumpka Argus and Commercial Advertiser"   Wetumpka   March 1835  
succeeded by
"Wetumpka Argus"  Feb 12, 1840 
"The Courier", "The Alabama Times",  "The Southern Crisis",  were weekly
newspapers in existence in Wetumpka in 1840