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Columbiana County, Ohio

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140newspaper titles
2digitized titles
45historic places
1809earliest paper
1803formed
101,877pop. 2020
84cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 140 newspaper titles published in Columbiana County, Ohio, with the earliest starting in 1809. 2 of these titles have digitized pages on Chronicling America. The National Register of Historic Places includes 45 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near East Liverpool, Salem, Lisbon.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers published in Columbiana

Library of Congress
140 newspaper titles
TitlePlaceYears
The Ohio PatriotLisbon, New Lisbon1809–1824
New-Lisbon GazetteLisbon1824–1824
The Ohio Patriot and New-Lisbon Weekly AdvertiserLisbon, New Lisbon1824–1828
Salem Gazette & Public AdvertiserSalem1825–1826
Columbiana American and New-Lisbon Free PressNew Lisbon1827–1829
The Ohio Patriot and New-Lisbon GazetteNew Lisbon1828–1831
Western PalladiumLisbon, New Lisbon1829–1855
The Ohio PatriotNew Lisbon1831–1833
Centreville RecorderCenterville1832–1839
The AuroraNew Lisbon, Lisbon1832–1833
Ohio Patriot and Farmers' and Mechanics' ShieldNew Lisbon1833–1839
The New-Lisbon AuroraLisbon, New Lisbon1833–1835
The AuroraNew Lisbon1835–1837
Genius of TemperanceNew Lisbon1836–1838
Free DiscussionNew Lisbon1837–1838
The AuroraLisbon, New Lisbon1838–1856
Wellsville Commercial Advertiser and Farmers and Mechanics' RegisterWellsville1838–1840
The Ohio PatriotLisbon, New Lisbon1839–1924
Cabin DemocratNew Lisbon1840–1840
The Village RegisterSalem1842–1847
American PatriotWellsville1844–1850
Anti-Slavery BugleNew Lisbon, Salem1845–1861
Anti-Slavery Bugle DigitizedNew Lisbon, Salem1845–?
The Homestead JournalSalem1847–1847
The Homestead Journal, and Village RegisterSalem1847–1848
Homestead JournalSalem1848–1855
The Wellsville PatriotWellsville1850–1864
The Buckeye StateLisbon, New Lisbon1852–1901
The Salem Weekly DemocratSalem1854–1855
Columbiana County RepublicanSalem1855–1857
The Salem RepublicanSalem1857–1889
Columbiana LedgerColumbiana1858–1863
East Liverpool MercuryEast Liverpool1861–1862
The Wellsville UnionWellsville1863–1892
The Merchant's JournalNew Lisbon1866–1867
The Salem JournalSalem1866–1872
The JournalLisbon, New Lisbon1867–1870
East Liverpool DemocratEast Liverpool1869–1899
Independent RegisterColumbiana1870–1898
The New Lisbon JournalLisbon, New Lisbon1870–1895
The Wellsville LocalWellsville1870–1871
East Liverpool GazetteEast Liverpool1871–1876
Hardman's ClipperSalem1871–1871
The East Liverpool GazetteEast Liverpool1871–1876
Leetonia ReporterLeetonia1872–1881
The Salineville IndexSalineville1872–1879
The Salem EraSalem1873–1889
Columbiana True PressColumbiana1875–1881
Potter's GazetteEast Liverpool1876–1882
The East Liverpool TribuneEast Liverpool1876–1911
The Salem Evening NewsSalem1877–1877
National GreenbackSalem1878–1880
The Valley EchoEast Palestine1878–1894
The LightningSalem1879–1899
The Saturday ReviewEast Liverpool, Wellsville1879–1904
Buckeye VidetteBryan, Columbus, Salem1880–1888
The Interregnum Pacificator and Prospectus of the Rights of ManSalem1880–1880
Fair DailyNew Lisbon1881–1881
Leetonia True PressLeetonia1881–1882
New Waterford TimesNew Waterford1881–1884
Leetonia DemocratLeetonia1882–1888
The East Liverpool Potter's GazetteEast Liverpool1882–1884
Potter's GazetteEast Liverpool1884–1891
The CrisisEast Liverpool1884–1885
East Liverpool CrisisEast Liverpool1885–1891
The Daily TribuneEast Liverpool1885–1885
The Evening ReviewEast Liverpool1885–1899
Wellsville Evening JournalWellsville1885–1999
Home LightNorth Georgetown1886–1899
The Columbiana GlobeColumbiana1886–1899
The Daily UnionWellsville1886–1904
The Palestine ReveilleEast Palestine1886–1889
The Daily CrisisEast Liverpool1887–1904
The Daily EchoEast Palestine1887–1887
Leetonia ReporterLeetonia1888–1957
The Daily ReveilleEast Palestine1888–1888
The Salem Daily NewsSalem1888–1905
The Salineville RecordSalineville1888–1894
The Weekly Noon-TideRogers1888–1890
Salem Daily EraSalem1889–1889
The News-VidetteSalem1889–1890
New MoonColumbiana, Columbiana1890–1894
The Columbiana LedgerColumbiana1890–1961
The Democratic BulletinSalem1890–1896
The Noon TideRogers, East Palestine1890–1903
The Republican ReveilleEast Palestine1890–1894
The Salem Republican-EraSalem1890–1891
The Salem Republican-EraSalem1890–1891
The Weekly CrisisEast Liverpool1890–1897
East Liverpool Crisis and GazetteEast Liverpool1891–1899
The Republican LeaderLisbon, New Lisbon1891–1898
The Republican-EraSalem1891–1920
The Salem Daily HeraldSalem1891–1919
Evening News ReviewEast Liverpool1892–1904
The Weekly UnionWellsville1893–1913
New Waterford MagnetNew Waterford1894–1920
The Reveille EchoEast Palestine1894–1922
The Lisbon JournalLisbon1895–1901
The HustlerColumbiana, Columbiana1896–1999
The Semi-Weekly CrisisEast Liverpool1897–1900
Columbiana IndependentColumbiana1898–1903
The Columbiana IndependentColumbiana, Columbiana1898–1903
The Daily PatriotLisbon1898–1911
The Evening RecordWellsville1898–1904
The News KodakMinerva, Minerva, Minerva1899–1906
The Potters Herald DigitizedEast Liverpool1899–?
The Weekly CrisisEast Liverpool1900–1904
The Buckeye StateLisbon1901–1960
The Buckeye State and Lisbon JournalLisbon1901–1901
Daily Union-RecordWellsville1904–1905
The Evening ReviewEast Liverpool1904–1924
The Weekly Crisis and Saturday ReviewEast Liverpool1904–1907
The Salem NewsSalem1905–?
Wellsville Daily UnionWellsville1905–1919
The Minerva NewsMinerva, Minerva, Minerva1907–1911
The Daily JournalLisbon1909–1911
The Evening JournalLisbon1911–1960
The Morning TribuneEast Liverpool1911–1924
The Chautauqua DailyEast Palestine1914–1914
The Tri-County FarmerSalem1914–1916
The Daily LeaderEast Palestine1915–1926
Farm and Dairy ProfitSalem1916–1918
Farm and DairySalem1918–?
Farm and DairySalem1918–?
East Liverpool Review-TribuneEast Liverpool1924–1928
The East Palestine Daily LeaderEast Palestine1926–1980
East Liverpool ReviewEast Liverpool1928–1970
East Liverpool NewsEast Liverpool1935–1935
Wellsville PressWellsville1947–1976
RecordSalem1952–1955
Graphic PressMinerva, Minerva, Minerva1957–1999
The Evening Journal and the Buckeye StateLisbon1960–1974
The LedgerColumbiana1961–1984
The Evening ReviewEast Liverpool1970–?
Village LifeColumbiana, Columbiana1972–1999
Western Reserve ExpressColumbiana1973–1974
Morning JournalLisbon1974–?
Morning JournalLisbon1980–1982
The Quaker HeritageSalem1987–?
The Columbiana HeritageSalem, Columbiana1988–?

Source: Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory. “Digitized” links lead to page images on Chronicling America.

Coverage timeline

Newspapers

Each bar is one title’s publication span. brown = digitized on Chronicling America Open-ended runs extend to today.

18001856191319692026

Sample front pages

Chronicling America

Digitized page-1 issues from papers published in Columbiana. Thumbnails link to the Library of Congress.

Courtesy Library of Congress, Chronicling America. Page images are hotlinked from loc.gov; generally public domain / no known restrictions (U.S. papers older than 95 years are public domain in their entirety; newer issues may contain some copyrighted third-party material). Rights & access.

On this day

Front pages

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

32 of 45 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

45 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey NHLEast LiverpoolSite1966
Bell, Hiram, FarmsteadColumbianaDistrict1999
Burchfield HomesteadSalemBuilding1999
Carnegie Public LibraryEast LiverpoolBuilding1980
Cawood, Richard L., ResidenceEast LiverpoolBuilding1988
Cherry Valley Coke OvensLeetoniaStructure1993
Church Hill Road Covered BridgeLisbonStructure1975
City HallEast LiverpoolBuilding1985
Columbiana County InfirmaryLisbonBuilding1979
Diamond Historic DistrictEast LiverpoolDistrict1985
East Fifth Street Historic DistrictEast LiverpoolDistrict1985
East Liverpool Downtown Historic DistrictEast LiverpoolDistrict2001
East Liverpool Post OfficeEast LiverpoolBuilding1976
East Liverpool PotteryEast LiverpoolBuilding1971
Eckis, Nicholas, HouseEast FairfieldBuilding1980
Elks ClubEast LiverpoolBuilding1985
Episcopal Church of the Ascension and ManseWellsvilleBuilding1986
Gaston's Mill-Lock No. 36, Sandy And Beaver Canal DistrictClarksonDistrict1974
Godwin-Knowles HouseEast LiverpoolDistrict1985
Hanna-Kenty HouseLisbonBuilding2001
Hanoverton Canal Town DistrictHanovertonDistrict1977
Harris, Franklin, FarmsteadSalemBuilding1997
Hise, Daniel Howell, HouseSalemBuilding1999
Hostetter InnLisbonBuilding1980
Ikirt HouseEast LiverpoolBuilding1980
Jones-Bowman HouseColumbianaBuilding1976
Laughlin, Homer, HouseEast LiverpoolBuilding1985
Lisbon Historic DistrictLisbonDistrict1979
McBean, Daniel, FarmsteadWellsvilleBuilding2005
Middle Sandy Presbyterian ChurchHomeworthBuilding1994
Morgan, John H., Surrender SiteWest PointSite1973
New Garden Monthly MeetinghouseHanovertonBuilding2022
Odd Fellows TempleEast LiverpoolBuilding1985
Patterson, Mary A., MemorialEast LiverpoolBuilding1985
Potters National BankEast LiverpoolBuilding1985
Potters Savings and LoanEast LiverpoolBuilding1985
Salem Downtown Historic DistrictSalemDistrict1995
Salem Methodist Episcopal ChurchSalemBuilding1995
Schmick, Charles Nelson, HouseLeetoniaBuilding1991
South Lincoln Avenue Historic DistrictSalemDistrict1993
Street, John, HouseSalemBuilding1973
Teegarden-Centennial Covered BridgeSalemStructure2000
Thompson, Cassius Clark, HouseEast LiverpoolBuilding1971
Travelers HotelEast LiverpoolBuilding1986
YMCAEast LiverpoolBuilding1985

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Columbiana was formed in 1803 (1803-05-01) from Jefferson, Washington.

COLUMBIANA created from JEFFERSON and WASHINGTON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Columbiana County population from 1810 to 2020 (Census historical series).

114k62k11k1810184018801920196020002020
1810182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
10,87822,03340,37832,83648,60268,59083,13190,12198,920107,004113,572112,075101,877

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

84 cemeteries and 8 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 84 listed
NameLatLon
Achor Valley Cemetery40.77394-80.53701
Bethel - Fairfield Cemetery40.83644-80.71729
Bethel Cemetery40.66061-80.76535
Bethel Cemetery40.87265-81.01714
Bethesda Cemetery40.70921-80.89875
Bnai Jacob Cemetery40.63228-80.60896
Bowman Cemetery40.75085-80.66602
Calcutta Cemetery40.66811-80.57562
Carlisle Cemetery40.74227-80.72507
Chambersburg Cemetery40.78701-81.03437
Church Hill Cemetery40.79144-80.70563
Clark Family Cemetery40.61137-80.7475
Clarkson Cemetery40.74367-80.61285
Columbiana Cemetery40.887-80.68424
Columbiana County Memorial Park40.66448-80.59374
Cool Springs Cemetery40.84844-80.72672
Cuppy Cemetery40.59449-80.67672
Damascus Cemetery40.89922-80.95092
Davis Cemetery40.702-80.76213
Dutton Cemetery40.77227-80.95592
East Carmel Cemetery40.77634-80.61276
Easterly Cemetery40.88875-80.72684
Edwards Cemetery40.76728-81.0556
Elkrun Cemetery40.81092-80.66367
English Cemetery40.82338-80.78674
Figley Cemetery40.76076-80.91265
Frederick Cemetery40.79867-80.75612
Frost Cemetery40.76266-80.86595
Gaskill Cemetery40.74101-80.75285
Glenview Cemetery40.82701-80.54201
Grandview Cemetery40.88561-80.84036
Hart Cemetery40.84783-80.81647
Highland Cemetery40.82672-80.8373
Highland Memorial Park40.89783-81.0112
Highlandtown Cemetery40.63283-80.75507
Hope Cemetery40.90977-80.84925
Hum Cemetery40.87089-80.66007
Jackman Cemetery40.69751-80.55441
Kembles Cemetery40.79089-80.69146
King Cemetery40.81653-80.95354
Koch Cemetery40.88922-80.5534
Lee Cemetery40.73789-80.81372
Lisbon Cemetery40.77707-80.76414
Longs Run Cemetery40.67117-80.56646
Lowries Cemetery40.72696-80.67068
Madison Cemetery40.7095-80.68007
Mason Rich Cemetery40.82709-80.58281
McKenzie Cemetery40.632-80.71813
Miller Cemetery40.7682-80.86566
Morgan Cemetery40.71127-80.80327
Moultrie Chapel Cemetery40.79672-81.05954
Mount Calvary Cemetery40.86311-80.76646
Mount Zion Cemetery40.75533-80.57007
New Alexander Cemetery40.78727-80.99425
New Lebanon Cemetery40.70755-80.8223
New Waterford Cemetery40.85339-80.6134
North Georgetown Cemetery40.84338-80.98175
Oak Ridge Cemetery40.612-80.70757
Oakdale Cemetery40.86672-80.75369
Ogle Cemetery40.60674-80.77791
Phillips Cemetery40.8501-80.82955
Plaines Cemetery40.74165-81.07625
Reading Cemetery40.83727-81.02759
Riverview Cemetery40.63895-80.57201
Saint Elizabeth Cemetery40.60796-80.65846
Saint Jacobs Cemetery40.82116-80.79202
Saint Marys Cemetery40.8495-80.55757
Saint Patricks Cemetery40.62811-80.83091
Saint Pauls Cemetery40.72616-80.8598
Salem Township Cemetery40.85783-80.80313
Sandy Springs Cemetery40.74941-80.95538
Scotch Settlement Cemetery40.64025-80.63908
Spring Grove Cemetery40.63422-80.59312
Spring Hill Cemetery40.60553-80.65894
Switzer Cemetery40.83593-80.7545
Township Line Cemetery40.69061-80.63312
Trinity Cemetery40.75505-80.86008
Unity Brick Church Cemetery40.87144-80.57312
Wayne Township Methodist Episcopal Cemetery40.71993-80.7942
West Beaver Cemetery40.69589-80.73702
Historical populated places — 8 of 8
NameLatLon
East Salineville40.62423-80.81647
Haysville40.61562-80.80675
Lockbridge40.77617-80.8123
McGarry40.88284-81.06982
Middle Beaver40.73395-80.63868
Newhouse40.78284-80.68313
Saratoga40.76562-80.74202
State Line40.83645-80.51923

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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