Kentucky History Drive

History is all around us.

Pioneers, Native nations, long hunters, soldiers and distillers. Explore the stories that made Kentucky, on a living map you can travel through time.

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Historic Kentucky newspapers, including the Kentucke Gazette.

The Kentucke Gazette

Fayette County · 2014

Kentucky’s first newspaper, begun August 11, 1787 by John and Fielding Bradford.

Weekly Began with Aug. 11, 1787 issue. -v. 2, no. 28 (Mar. 7, 1789). Publishers: John and Fielding Bradford, 1787-1788; John Bradford, 1788-1789. First newspaper published in Kentucky. Cf. Available on microfilm by OmniSys Corp. (for the Library of Virginia).

No. 2 (Aug. 18, 1787). Kentucky gazette (Lexington, Ky. : 1789) 2638-7239 (DLC)sn 82014782 (OCoLC)8796976

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Kentucke Gazette printing house

Kentucke Gazette printing house (1887)

Photo: William Henry Perrin / Filson Club Wikimedia Commons License: Public domain

121 places

  • American Baptist Jefferson County · 1903 – 1904
  • Blue-Grass Blade 188?-19?? Fayette County · 1886 – 1910
  • Breathitt County News 190?-19?? Breathitt County · 1903 – 1909
  • Crittenden Press Crittenden County · 1886 – 1907
  • Crittenden Record-Press Crittenden County · 1909 – 1918
  • Crittenden Record=press Crittenden County · 1907 – 1909
  • Cumberland Republican Bell County · 1891
  • Daily Evening Bulletin Mason County · 1881 – 1882
  • Daily Evening Bulletin Mason County · 1883 – 1887
  • Daily Kentuckian Christian County · 1918
  • Daily Public Ledger Mason County · 1892 – 1912
  • Daily South Kentuckian Christian County · 1884 – 1885
  • Evening Bulletin Mason County · 1882 – 1883
  • Frankfort Weekly News and Roundabout Franklin County · 1908
  • Hopkinsville Kentuckian Christian County · 1889 – 1918
  • It 190?-19?? Anderson County · 1902 – 1903
  • Kentucky Gazette Fayette County · 2014
  • Kentucky Gazette and General Advertiser Fayette County · 1803 – 1809
  • Kentucky Irish American Jefferson County · 1898 – 1921
  • Kentucky Reporter 1???-19?? Daviess County · 1902
  • Lexington Weekly News Fayette County · 1912
  • Liberty 19??-19?? Ballard County · 1910
  • Licking Valley Courier 19??-Current Morgan County · 1911 – 1922
  • Louisville Anzeiger 184?-1938 Jefferson County · 1849 – 1928
  • Louisville Weekly Courier Jefferson County · 1859 – 1865
  • Louisville Weekly Journal Jefferson County · 2016
  • Maysville Weekly Bulletin Mason County · 1864
  • Mining Journal Bell County · 1891
  • Mount Vernon Signal 18??-Current Rockcastle County · 1896 – 1922
  • Mountain Advocate Knox County · 1904 – 1922
  • Ohio Valley Worker : Official Paper of the Federated Trades Council of Louisville, Trades and Labor Council of New Albany, Central Labor Union of Jeffersonville Jefferson County · 2007
  • Omnibus Jefferson County · 1866 – 1883
  • Owingsville Outlook Bath County · 1884 – 1922
  • Paducah Sun 1???-1902 Mccracken County · 1901 – 1902
  • Richmond Daily Register Madison County · 1918 – 1922
  • Semi-Weekly Bourbon News Bourbon County · 1883
  • Semi-Weekly Interior Journal Lincoln County · 2020
  • Semi-Weekly South Kentuckian Christian County · 1883 – 1889
  • The Adair County News Adair County · 1900 – 1922
  • The Allen County Times Allen County · 2056
  • The Anderson News 18??-Current Anderson County · 1885 – 1929
  • The Bee Hopkins County · 1892 – 1916
  • The Big Sandy News Lawrence County · 1885 – 1922
  • The Bourbon News Bourbon County · 1882 – 1883
  • The Bourbon News Bourbon County · 1897 – 1922
  • The Breckenridge News Breckinridge County · 1878 – 1921
  • The Bulletin 18??-18?? Jefferson County · 1881
  • The Central Record 18??-Current Garrard County · 1898 – 1922
  • The Citizen Allen County · 2056
  • The Citizen Madison County · 2076
  • The Citizen=times Allen County · 1919 – 1928
  • The Clay City Times Powell County · 1901 – 1922
  • The Climax Madison County · 1887 – 1897
  • The Climax-Madisonian Madison County · 1914 – 1917
  • The Courier-Journal Jefferson County · 1893 – 1908
  • The Crittenden Press Crittenden County · 1919 – 1922
  • The Crittenden Record Crittenden County · 1904 – 1907
  • The Daily Democrat 189?-1891 Bell County · 1891
  • The Daily Herald Bell County · 1891
  • The Daily Kentuckian Christian County · 1898
  • The Daily News Bell County · 1891
  • The Democrat Bell County · 1891
  • The Dollar Weekly Bulletin Mason County · 1862 – 1864
  • The Evening Bulletin Mason County · 1887 – 1904
  • The Examiner Jefferson County · 2015
  • The Falmouth Democrat 18??-1??? Pendleton County · 1886 – 1913
  • The Falmouth Outlook Pendleton County · 1907 – 1948
  • The Falmouth Pendletonian Pendleton County · 1881
  • The Frankfort Roundabout Franklin County · 1882 – 1908
  • The Guide 188?-18?? Pendleton County · 1886
  • The Hartford Herald Ohio County · 1875 – 1922
  • The Hartford Republican 18??-1926 Ohio County · 1891 – 1922
  • The Hazard Herald Perry County · 2003
  • The Hazard Leader 192?-19?? Perry County · 1921 – 1927
  • The Hazel Green Herald Wolfe County · 1885 – 1917
  • The Herald Bell County · 1898
  • The Hickman Courier Fulton County · 1868 – 1922
  • The Interior Journal Lincoln County · 1872 – 1881
  • The Interior Journal Lincoln County · 2021
  • The Interior Journal Lincoln County · 2023
  • The Kentucke Gazette Fayette County · 2014
  • The Kentuckian 191?-19?? Christian County · 1919
  • The Kentucky Gazette Fayette County · 2014
  • The Kentucky Gazette Fayette County · 1866 – 1902
  • The Kentucky Register 190?-1917 Madison County · 1916 – 1917
  • The Kentucky Vindicator 189?-19?? Daviess County · 2007
  • The Lexington Record Fayette County · 1890 – 1891
  • The Lexington Standard Fayette County · 1900 – 1911
  • The Louisville Daily Courier Jefferson County · 2016
  • The Louisville Daily Journal Jefferson County · 1836 – 1937
  • The Madisonian Madison County · 1913 – 1914
  • The Middlesborough News Bell County · 1889 – 1901
  • The Mountain Eagle Letcher County · 1909 – 1926
  • The Mountain Signal Rockcastle County · 1888 – 1889
  • The Mt. Sterling Advocate Montgomery County · 1891 – 1922
  • The Ohio Falls Express Jefferson County · 1891
  • The Paducah Daily Sun Mccracken County · 1896 – 1898
  • The Paducah Evening Sun Mccracken County · 1906 – 1910
  • The Paducah Sun Mccracken County · 1898 – 1906
  • The Paducah Weekly Sun Mccracken County · 1906
  • The Pendleton Democrat 187?-1??? Pendleton County · 1886 – 1895
  • The Pendletonian 189?-19?? Pendleton County · 1898 – 1912
  • The Public Ledger Mason County · 1914 – 1922
  • The Record Muhlenberg County · 1899 – 1920
  • The Richmond Climax Madison County · 1897 – 1914
  • The Richmond Climax Madison County · 1917
  • The South Kentuckian Christian County · 1879 – 1883
  • The Spout Spring Times Estill County · 1896 – 1902
  • The Stanford Interior Journal Lincoln County · 2022
  • The Sun Lewis County · 1911 – 1915
  • The Sun Lewis County · 1917 – 1924
  • The Sunday Chat Mccracken County · 1901
  • The Twice-A-Week Courier-Journal Jefferson County · 1897 – 1902
  • The Vanceburg Courier 187?-1??? Lewis County · 1884
  • The Vanceburg Sun Lewis County · 1906 – 1910
  • The Vanceburg Sun Lewis County · 1915 – 1917
  • The Weekly Herald Bell County · 1895 – 1898
  • The Weekly Roundabout Franklin County · 1879 – 1882
  • The Winchester News Clark County · 1908 – 1912
  • Twice-A-Week Record-Press Crittenden County · 1909
  • Weekly Courier-Journal Jefferson County · 1872 – 1908