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Fayette County, Ohio

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42newspaper titles
2digitized titles
17historic places
1829earliest paper
1810formed
28,951pop. 2020
63cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 42 newspaper titles published in Fayette County, Ohio, with the earliest starting in 1829. 2 of these titles have digitized pages on Chronicling America. The National Register of Historic Places includes 17 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973. Most listings are in or near Washington Court House, Washington Courthouse, Pancoastburg.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers published in Fayette

Library of Congress
42 newspaper titles
TitlePlaceYears
Freedom's AdvocateWashington Court House, Washington1829–1899
Peoples' PalladiumWashington Court House1831–1832
Washington Herald, and Fayette County RegisterWashington, Washington Court House1832–1836
Genius of LibertyWashington Court House1834–1899
The CirculatorWashington Court House, London1838–1839
Washington AuroraWashington Court House1839–1899
Fayette DemocratWashington Court House1840–1899
Fayette RepublicanWashington Court House, Washington1840–1840
The WashingtonianWashington Court House1840–1847
Washington Aurora and Fayette County DemocratWashington Court House, Washington1840–1899
The Fayette New EraWashington Court House1849–1855
The Washington RegisterWashington, Washington Court House1855–1864
Washington HeraldWashington Court House1858–1860
Fayette County Herald DigitizedWashington Court House1860–1999
Fayette County Herald DigitizedWashington Court House1860–?
The Ohio State RegisterWashington, Washington Court House1864–1870
The Register and People's AdvocateWashington Court House1871–1873
The Ohio State RegisterWashington Court House1873–1928
Fayette RepublicanWashington Court House1879–1888
Washington Daily GlobeWashington Court House1885–1899
Washington Daily HeraldWashington Court House1885–1916
The New Holland LeaderNew Holland, New Holland1887–1981
Plain TalkNew Holland, New Holland1888–1891
The CycloneWashington Court House1888–1889
The Fayette Register-DemocratWashington Court House1888–1894
The Cyclone and Fayette RepublicanWashington Court House1889–1904
Washington Evening RegisterWashington Court House1900–1900
Fayette County RecordWashington Court House1901–1905
Washington TodayWashington Court House1903–1999
The Cyclone-RepublicanWashington Court House1904–1905
The Record-RepublicanWashington Court House1905–1937
The Fayette AdvertiserWashington Court House1907–1913
Daily News-AdvertiserWashington Court House1914–1917
Washington HeraldWashington Court House1916–1921
The Washington Daily NewsWashington Court House1917–1917
Washington C.H. HeraldWashington Court House1921–1937
Washington C.H. Record-HeraldWashington Court House1937–1972
The Fayette TimesWashington Court House1938–1949
The Weekly AdvertiserWashington Court House1964–?
Record HeraldWashington Court House1972–?
South Central Ohio Shopper's GuideWashington Court House1983–?
Clinton County Shopper's GuideWilmington, Washington Court House1986–?

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.

18201871192319742026

Sample front pages

Chronicling America

Digitized page-1 issues from papers published in Fayette. 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

No digitized front pages for Fayette were found on today’s month/day in the sampled years. Try the sample front pages above, or browse Chronicling America.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

12 of 17 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

17 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Burnett, William, HouseWashington Court HouseBuilding1989
Fayette County CourthouseWashington CourthouseBuilding1973
Jackson MoundPancoastburgSite1975
Judy ChapelWashington Court HouseBuilding1998
Kelley, Barney, HouseWashington CourthouseBuilding1979
Light, Jacob, HouseWashington Court HouseBuilding1989
Mark Road BridgeStauntonStructure1990
McCafferty, William, FarmhouseMt. SterlingBuilding1987
Rawlings-Brownell HouseWashington Court HouseBuilding1988
Robinson-Pavey HouseWashington Court HouseBuilding1987
Sharp, Morris, HouseWashington Court HouseBuilding1974
Smith, Edward, Jr., FarmWashington Court HouseBuilding1987
Sollars FarmsteadGreenfieldBuilding1995
Washington Cemetery Historic DistrictWashington Court HouseDistrict2006
Washington Court House Commercial Historic DistrictWashington Court HouseDistrict1985
Washington SchoolWashington Court HouseBuilding2013
Woodlawn FarmWashington CourthouseBuilding1986

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Fayette was formed in 1810 (1810-03-01) from Highland, Ross.

FAYETTE created from HIGHLAND and ROSS.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

29k15k1,8541810184018801920196020002020
1810182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
1,8546,31610,98415,93520,36421,72521,51821,38522,55424,77527,46728,43328,951

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

63 cemeteries and 4 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 63 of 63 listed
NameLatLon
Anders Cemetery39.39375-83.52482
Anderson Cemetery39.45318-83.46433
Archer Cemetery39.47401-83.39023
Asbury Chapel Cemetery39.51358-83.55427
Bloomingburg Cemetery39.60173-83.39464
Booco - Ryan Cemetery39.63032-83.60778
Bostwick-Loofbourrow Cemetery39.69246-83.27103
Britton Chaffin Cemetery39.53462-83.27649
Bush Cemetery39.5234-83.50797
Carmean Cemetery39.47861-83.46957
Cochran Cemetery39.42367-83.44269
Coffman-Orr Cemetery39.46707-83.41753
Coil Cemetery39.54951-83.50992
Compton Cemetery39.50784-83.29797
Cook Cemetery39.68978-83.34047
Creamer Cemetery39.62216-83.54239
Davis Cemetery39.47005-83.39402
Eyeman-Bryant Cemetery39.48521-83.33224
Fairview Cemetery39.66672-83.58269
Good Hope Cemetery39.44784-83.37075
Hagler Cemetery39.59892-83.54268
Hidy Cemetery39.66978-83.52158
Highbee Cemetery39.62839-83.53075
Highlawn Memory Gardens39.52312-83.49353
Hines Cemetery39.6049-83.50238
Hogue - Allen Cemetery39.64722-83.60956
Hyer Cemetery39.49261-83.46749
Jefferson - Jasper Township Cemetery39.61061-83.59075
Johnson Cemetery39.55145-83.33078
Kirk Cemetery39.64124-83.50406
Leavell Cemetery39.65589-83.28134
Lloyd Cemetery39.55998-83.31382
Madison Mills Cemetery39.64589-83.32658
Mallow-Perrill Cemetery39.53756-83.56659
Mark Cemetery39.50389-83.51421
McKillip - Kirk Cemetery39.6687-83.54598
Messmore Cemetery39.62339-83.25824
Milledgeville - Plymouth Cemetery39.58533-83.58436
Mills - McKillip Cemetery39.66231-83.65322
Old Creamer Cemetery39.61764-83.54024
Old Jeffersonville Cemetery39.65589-83.56408
Old Washington Cemetery39.53367-83.44103
Parrott - Marshall Cemetery39.59143-83.51415
Rock Mills Cemetery39.44104-83.40124
Rogers Cemetery39.41673-83.37464
Rogers McElwain Cemetery39.41959-83.37001
Rowe Cemetery39.50419-83.31207
Saint Colmans Cemetery39.53645-83.4252
Sates Gamble Cemetery39.58645-83.28741
Sollars Cemetery39.42536-83.39488
Staunton Cemetery39.4759-83.48075
Stuckey Cemetery39.41358-83.35235
Sugar Creek Cemetery39.54867-83.50936
Sugar Creek Cemetery39.55534-83.49186
Sugar Grove Cemetery39.46617-83.43408
Union Chapel Cemetery39.67905-83.45062
Vesey Cemetery39.65707-83.4335
Walnut Creek Cemetery39.38256-83.45547
Washington Cemetery39.53895-83.41714
Waterloo Cemetery39.62728-83.26741
White Oak Grove Cemetery39.42839-83.50464
Wilson Cemetery39.39815-83.50621
Yankeetown Cemetery39.65852-83.25599
Historical populated places — 4 of 4
NameLatLon
Ghormley39.40951-83.3788
Kingfred39.54478-83.34603
Olympia39.54117-83.37769
Pearsons39.59395-83.6602

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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