New Hampshire Online Historical Newspapers Summary

New Hampshire is one of the states that does not have a single central online state repository for historical newspapers, but they use the Library of Congress Chronicling America site as their main site for searching old newspapers. There are several free online newspapers on other sites and collections available on subscription sites. Below is a list of where the titles are stored and the link so that you can access them. 

There are about 1,300 newspapers that have been published in the Granite State – not all of them are searchable online. But there are several that are indeed available. So go for it – find your New Hampshire ancestors and all the interesting articles that capture the stories of their lives. 

Please note that I have not always entered the dates that are included in the collections, as I suspect they will change as more items are digitized. Also, I suspect that some of these links may change over time – so if there is a dead link – please use your favorite search engine to find their new location. 

(Recently added links are in BOLD)

New Hampshire Historical Newspapers

Free Sites:

Statewide Collections:

Chronicling America – New Hampshire

The Links for Chronicling America go to the new Version 2.0

• Abolition Standard (Concord, N.H.) 1840-1841
• Among the Clouds (Mount Washington, N.H.) 1885-1917
• Burt’s Among the Clouds (Mount Washington, N.H.) 1877-1884
• Concord Register (Concord, N.H.) 1824-1825
• Dollar Weekly Mirror (Manchester, N.H.) 1851-1863
• Dollar Weekly Mirror and New Hampshire Journal of Agriculture (Manchester, N.H.) 1863-1865
• Foster’s Daily Democrat (Dover, N.H.) 1873-Current
• Fowle’s New-Hampshire Gazette and General Advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]) 1784-1787
• Hill’s New-Hampshire Patriot (Concord, N.H.) 1840-1847
• Independent Statesman (Concord, N.H.) 1871-1924
• Manchester American & Messenger (Manchester, N.H.) 1852-1857
• Morning Star (Limerick, Me.) 1826-1904
• New Hampshire Farmer and Weekly Union (Manchester, N.H.) 1901-1918
• New Hampshire Journal of Agriculture (Manchester, N.H.) 1858-1863
• New Hampshire Statesman (Concord [N.H.]) 1847-1868
• New-Hampshire Gazette, Or, State Journal and General Advertiser (Portsmouth, N.H.) 1778-1781
• New-Hampshire Statesman (Concord, N.H.) 1823-1825
• New-Hampshire Statesman and Concord Register (Concord, N.H.) 1825-1831
• New-Hampshire Statesman and State Journal (Concord [N.H.]) 1831-1847
• People and Patriot (Concord, N.H.) 1883-1892
• The American and Messenger (Manchester, N.H.) 1852-1852
• The Daily Manchester American (Manchester, N.H.) 1852-1863
• The Freeman’s Journal, Or, New-Hampshire Gazette (Portsmouth, N.H.) 1776-1778
• The New Hampshire Gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]) 1793-1847
• The New Hampshire Gazette (Portsmouth, N.H.) 1756-1763
• The New Hampshire Gazette (Portsmouth, N.H.) 1852-1940
• The New Hampshire Gazette and Republican Union (Portsmouth, N.H.) 1847-1852
• The New-Hampshire Gazette and General Advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]) 1781-1784
• The New-Hampshire Gazette and General Advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]) 1787-1793
• The New-Hampshire Gazette and Historical Chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.) 1763-1776
• The People (Concord, N.H.) 1868-1878
• The People and New Hampshire Patriot (Concord, N.H.) 1878-1883
• The People’s Advocate (Concord, N.H.) 1841-1844
• Weekly Union (Manchester, N.H.) 1880-1901

Google News Archive

• Bedford – Bedford Journal
• Hollis – Hollis Brookline Journal
• Manchester – L’Avenir National
• Manchester – Le Canado-Américain
• Manchester – Echo des Canadiens
• Merrimack – Merrimack Journal
• Milford – The Cabinet
• Milford – The Milford Cabinet And Wilton Journal
• Nashua – Nashua Daily Telegraph
• Nashua – The Telegraph
• Nashua – Daily Nashua Telegraph
• Peterborough – Peterborough Transcript

County and Library Collections:

Carroll County
Conway Public Library

• Reporter (1909-1973)
• The Mt. Washington Valley Mountain Ear (1976-1986)
• The Reporter (1974-1985)
• White Mountain Reporter (1895-1909)
• Fryeburg Reporter (1938)

Coos County
Colebrook Public Library

• The News and Sentinel (1895-1982)
• The Colebrook Sentinel (1913-1934)
• The Northern Sentinel (1870-1875)

Grafton County
Bethlehem Public Library

• White Mountain Echo (1878-1927)

Littleton Public Library

• The Littleton Courier (1889-1976)
• The Lisbon Courier (1908-1916)

Minot-Sleeper Library

• The Bristol Enterprise (1901-1980)
• Enterprise (1980-1990)
• The Record Enterprise (1994-1996)
• Bristol Weekly Enterprise (1879-1900)
• Weekly Enterprise (1878-1878)

Hillsborough County
Fuller Public Library

• Hillsborough Messenger (1891-1961)
• Messenger (1976-2001)
• News Messenger (1989-1992)
• Hillsboro Enterprise (1895-1899)
• Messenger Outlook (1988-1989)
• Hillsboro Messenger (1898-1898)

New Hampshire Aviation Historical Society

• The Beacon (1944-1946)
• Daily News (1942)
• NAW Airmada (1945-1946)
• NAD Airmada (1945)
• Union Leader Army Air Base Supplement (1941)
• Scientific American (1911)
• Grenier Field Beacon (1943)
• Honolulu Star Bulletin Extras (1941)
• Ammon Terminal Souvenir Edition (1962)
• Northern New Hampshire Magazine (2002)
• The Dedication of Genier Athletic Field (1943)
• Northern Sentinel (1949)

Nashua Public Library

• Nashua Telegraph (1901-1952)
• Nashua Daily Telegraph (1869-1904)
• L’Impartial (1898-1964)
• The Telegraph (2018-2020)

Peterborough Public Library

• The Peterborough Transcript (1854-2006)
• Monadnock Ledger-Transcript (2006-2023)
• Contoocook Transcript (1849-1854)
• Millers Paper (1776-1776)
• New Hampshire Underground Railroad (1834-1834)
• New Hampshire Land Surveyor (1901-1901)
• Peterborough Messenger (1847-1848)
• Hillsboro County Republican And State Clarion (1830-1831)
• Jaffrey Recorder Transcript (1958-1960)

Wadleigh Memorial Library

• Milford Cabinet And Wilton Journal (1927-1999)
• Milford Cabinet (1925-1972)
• Farmers Cabinet (1802-1900)
• Cabinet (1999-2010)
• The Milford Cabinet And Wilton Journal (2011-2018)
• Milford Daily Pointer (1894-1900)
• The Cabinet (2019-2020)
• Wilton Journal (1926-1956)
• Farmers Cabinet and Milford Advance (1892)
• Milford Cabinet and Wilton Journal (1922)

Merrimack County
New Hampshire State Library

• Keene Evening Sentinel (1890-1957)
• Keene Evening Sentinel And New Hampshire Sentinel (1957-1965)
• New Hampshire Sentinel (1799-1889)

Rockingham County
Derry Public Library

• Derry News (1880-2023)
• Nutfield News (2005-2022)
• Derry Enterprise (1905-1919)
• Derry Times (1898-1908)
• Derry News And Salem Enterprise (1961-1963)
• Thursday (1971-1973)
• Nutfield News Tri Town Times (2020)
• Scrapbook (1926-1984)
• The Enterprise (1959-1960)
• Derry Serviceman (1944-1946)
• The Derry Star (1960-1972)
• Evening Record (1918-1921)
• Manchester Advertiser (1901)

Exeter Public Library

• The Exeter News-Letter (1867-1975)
• Exeter News-Letter and Rockingham Advertiser (1840-1867)
• Exeter News-Letter and Rockingham County Advertiser (1833-1840)
• Exeter News-Letter (1831-1875)
• Exeter News-Letter and Rockingham Probate Advertiser (1831-1833)

Kelley Library

• Salem Observer (1968-2010)
• Observer (1983-1984)

Portsmouth Public Library

• The Portsmouth Herald (2016-2023)

The Nesmith Library

• Windham Independent (1977-2016)
• Windham Independent News (2017-2021)
• The Windham News (1969-1975)
• Windham News (1975-1976)

Strafford County

Dover Public Library

• Fosters Daily Democrat (1873-1927)
• The Dover Enquirer (1828-1880)
• Fosters Weekly Democrat And Dover Enquirer (1906-1917)
• The Times And Dover Enquirer (1828-1849)
• Fosters Weekly Democrat (1894-1900)
• Fosters Democrat (1872-1875)
• Strafford Inquirer (1828)
• The Public Forum (1871-1872)

Farmington News Archive

• Farmington News (1879-1976)

Lee Public Library

• Newmarket Advertiser (1891-1932)

Rochester Public Library

• Rochester Courier (1864-1969)

​Sullivan County
Fiske Free Library

• National Eagle (1834-1897)
• The National Eagle (1883-1918)

Richards Free Library

• Argus Champion (1925-2016)
• New Hampshire Argus And Spectator (1866-1925)
• Republican Champion (1881-1925)
• Argus Champion And Newport Lake Sunapee Times (1955-1971)
• News Leader (1994-2000)
• Newport Guardian And Kearsarge Sunapee Sun (1948-1953)
• Lake Sunapee Echo (1891-1896)
• Newport Lake Sunapee Times (1953-1955)
• Tuesday Argus (1923-1925)
• Whip And Spur (1839-1860)
• Daily Champion (1882-1884)

Lane Memorial Library Hampton Newspapers

• Hampton snippets from old historical newspapers (1700s-1800s)
• Atlantic News
• Beachcomber
• Beach News
• Exeter News-Letter
• Hampton Union
• Hampton-NorthHampton Patch.com

Student Collections:

Antioch University New England – Keene

• Common Thread

Colby Sawyer College – New London

• Courier

Dartmouth College – Hanover

• The Dartmouth
• Dartmouth
• ​The Dartmouth
• The Dartmouth Review

​Franklin Pierce University – Rindge

• Pierce Arrow

Granite State College – Concord

• News

Hanover High School – Hanover

• Harpoon

Keene State College – Keene

• Equinox

New England College – Hanniker

• News

Oyster River High School – Durham

• Mouth of the River

Phillips Exeter Academy – Exeter

• Exonian

Plymouth State University – Plymouth

• The Prospect (1905-1926)
• P.T.C. Prospect (1946-1948)
• Conning Tower Gleanings (1951-1982)
• Plymouth Passages (1982-1985)
• Plymouth State Update (1985-1997)
• Plymouth Magazine (1998-2017)
• New Hampshire (1972-1978)

Rivier University – Nashua

• Rivier Today

Saint Anselm College – Goffstown

• Crier

Southern New Hampshire University – Manchester

• Around School: 1939-1940
• Tatler: 1944
• The Pen: 1964-1970
• The Collegiate Revolution: 1966-1970, 1972
• The Observer
• The Penmen Press

University of New Hampshire – Durham

• The New Hampshire

Miscellaneous Collections and Indexes:

Independent Voices – Alternative Press

• Off The Brass

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Newspapers 1933-1941

• Berlin – Kilkenny Pioneer (Company 155)
• Danbury – Axe And Quill (Company 126)
• East Jaffrey – Monadnock Monarch (Company 118)
• Glen – Bobcat (Company 151)
• Gorham – Peabody Pirate (Company 155)
• North Chatham – Cold River Ripple (Company 152)
• North Woodstock – Profile Review (Company 126)
• North Woodstock – Tripoli Pirate (Company 194)
• Pierce Bridge – Gale River Gazette (Company 153)
• Pierce Bridge – Gale River Life (Company 153)
• Pierce Bridge – Gale River Weekly (Company 153)
• Pierce Bridge – Lookout (Company 153)
• Raymond – Pawtuckaway Flashes (Company 123)
• Tamworth – Chocorua Echo (Company 117)
• Warren – Dynamo (Company 134)
• Warren – See See (Company 134)
• Warren – See See Daze (Company 134)
• Warren – Whitlings From Warren (Company 133)
• Woodsville – The Pioneer (Company 101)

Small Town Papers

• Bedford Journal — Milford
• Hollis Brookline Journal — Hollis
• Journal of the Print World — Gilmanton
• Merrimack Journal — Milford
• The Cabinet — Milford
• The Peterborough Transcript — Peterborough

Old Fulton Postcards

• Portsmouth NH Herald

For Obituary Indexes, transcriptions, and other death/obituary information from historical newspapers, please check out the Obituaries page. ​​​​

Other Free Sites:

Berlin

• Coos Guardian

Concord

• New Hampshire Patriot
• New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette 
• Herald of Freedom

Lebanon

• The Lebanonian

Manchester

• The Hippo
• The Hippo

Portsmouth

• New Hampshire Gazette
• The New Hampshire Gazette

Subscription or Pay Sites:

Ancestry.com:

There are currently 23 publications available on this site. See all the titles at Ancestry – New Hampshire Newspapers

Genealogy Bank:

There are currently 159 publications available on this site. See all the titles at Genealogy Bank – New Hampshire Newspapers

Newspaper Archive:

There are currently 17 publications available on this site. See all the titles at Newspaper Archive – New Hampshire

Newspapers.com:

There are currently 13 publications available on this site. See all the titles at Newspapers.com – New Hampshire. 

And Finally:

You also need to visit the New Hampshire Newspaper Project site, which can tell you what is occurring in the state with regard to newspaper projects and where some microfilmed newspapers are available in the state. 

Please note – even more may be available via a local library where a library card is required. And of course, there is always microfilm for those that have not been made available online as yet.

For more links for different states, provinces, and countries – please see the Newspaper Links page on this website