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Blount County Newspapers

Currently, the main newspaper for Blount County is The Daily Times, which serves Maryville, Alcoa and the rest of the county. There have been several other newspapers published throughout the county's history. See a listing of defunct newspapers.

Are you interested in finding content from these newspapers? If so, you have several options.

Obituaries

Obituaries from county newspapers from 1841-1960 are included in the

Newspaper Articles

Newspaper items from the Blount County Blog -- Occassionally, I post items from the newspaper to the blog.
Newspaper abstracts of Blount County - collection of abstracts compiled by Glen Teffeteller. Covers various papers from 1832-1905 and includes death & marriage notices as well.

Family History Center -- you can use your local FHC to request the following microfilm

Film Number 0204811 - Advocate, Blount Co. Standard, East Tennessean, Independent, Maryville Democrat, Maryville Index, Maryville Intelligencer, Maryville Monitor, Maryville Republican, Millennial Trumpeter, Religious & Literary Intelligncer, Soldier's Gazette, Blount County Democrat, East TN News, Maryville Record, Maryville Watchman, Today's News, Watchman
Maryville Enterprise - Film numbers 0173841-0173863, 0212369, 0212370, 0246941, 0246942
Maryville Times - Film numbers 0173864-0173871, 0204784-0204800, 0212371-0212412, 0246938-0246940

Tennessee State Library & Archives

See the TSLA Holdings for these newspapers

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