New Hampshire Online Historical Newspapers

There are about 1,300 newspapers that have been published in the the Granite State - certainly not all of them are searchable online. But there are several that are indeed available. So go for it - find articles about the events, history, and people that capture the stories of New Hampshire. 

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. 

(Updated September, 2019; recently added links are in BOLD)

Statewide Collections:

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

New Hampshire Newspaper Index

• Boston Sunday Globe NH Weekly 1989-June 2001
• Business NH 1989-
• Concord Monitor 1984-August 2005
• Historical New Hampshire 1984-
• Nashua Telegraph 1984-1995
• New Hampshire Bar Journal June 2003-
• New Hampshire Bar News 2003-
• New Hampshire Premier 1990-1995
• New Hampshire Profiles 1985-1991
• Northern NH Magazine 1998-
• Spectator 1990-1991
• Union Leader 1984-2002

County and Library Collections:

Carroll County
Conway Public Library

• Reporter
• White Mountain Reporter
• Fryeburg Reporter

Grafton County
Bethlehem Public Library

• White Mountain Echo

Hillsborough County
Fuller Public Library

• Hillsboro Enterprise 
• Hillsboro Messenger 
• Hillsborough Messenger 
• Messenger 
• Messenger 
• Messenger Outlook 
• News Messenger 

Nashua Public Library

• Nashua Daily Telegraph
• Nashua Telegraph

Peterborough Public Library

• Contoocook Transcript 
• Peterborough Messenger 
• Peterborough Transcript 
• Monadnock Ledger Transcript

Wadleigh Memorial Library

• Cabinet
• Farmers Cabinet 
• Farmers Cabinet and Milford Advance 
• Milford Cabinet 
• Milford Cabinet 
• Milford Cabinet and Wilton Journal 
• Milford Cabinet And Wilton Journal 
• Milford Daily Pointer 
• Wilton Journal 
• Wilton Journal 

Rockingham County
Derry Public Library

• Derry Enterprise 
• Derry News 
• Derry News And Salem Enterprise 
• Derry Times 
• Derry Times
• Manchester Advertiser
• Nutfield News

Kelley Library

• Salem Observer 
• Observer

Plaistow Public Library

• Plaistow Town Reports 

The Nesmith Library

• Annual Reports 
• The Windham News
• Windham Independent 
• Windham News 

Strafford County
Dover NH Public Library

• City Directories 
• City Directory 
• Dover And Great Falls Directory 
• Dover City Directory 
• Dover Directory 
• Dover Great Falls And Rochester Directory 
• Dover Great Falls And Somersworth Directory 
• Dover Great Falls And Strafford County Directory 
• Dover Somersworth And Strafford County Directory 
• Dover Somersworth Rochester And Strafford Co. Directory 
• Dover Somersworth Rochester And Strafford County Directory

Farmington News Archive

• Farmington News 

Lee Public Library

• Newmarket Advertiser 

​Sullivan County
Fiske Free Library

• Birth Records 
• Death Records 
• Internment Records 
• Marriage Records 
• National Eagle 

Richards Free Library

• Argus Champion
• New Hampshire Argus And Spectator
• Republican Champion
• Argus Champion And Newport Lake Sunapee Times 
• News Leader
• Newport Guardian And Kearsarge Sunapee Sun
• Lake Sunapee Echo 
• Newport Lake Sunapee Times 
• Tuesday Argus 
• Whip And Spur
• Daily Champion

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:

Colby Sawyer College - New London

•  Currents 

Dartmouth College - Hanover

• The Dartmouth
• Dartmouth
• ​The Dartmouth

​Franklin Pierce University - Rindge

• Pierce Arrow

Hanover High School - Hanover

• Harpoon

Keene State College - Keene

• Equinox

Manchester Community College - Manchester

• Live Wire

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

• Merrimack Journal Milford, New Hampshire
• Peterborough Transcript Peterborough, New Hampshire
• Bedford Journal Milford
• Cabinet Milford
• Hollis Brookline Journal Hollis

Newspaper Abstracts - New Hampshire

The Olden Times - New Hampshire

Other Free Sites:

Berlin

• Coos Guardian

Concord

• New Hampshire Patriot
• New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette 

Lebanon

• The Lebanonian

Manchester

• The Hippo

Portsmouth

• New Hampshire Gazette