County Past

Your county’s newspapers, landmarks & buried history

One page per U.S. county: free public records for newspapers, National Register places, cemeteries, Civil War battlefields, formation history, and population — built for family historians.

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3,148CountiesBrowse by state 100,122LandmarksNRHP index 153,046CemeteriesGNIS index 341BattlefieldsCivil War index 13,498NewspapersCoverage index

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Newspaper directory data is loaded for 3 states so far; landmark and history layers cover the whole country.