Florida Online Historical Newspapers

12/24/2018

There are over 2,300 newspapers that have been published in the Sunshine 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 Florida.

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 November, 2018; recently added links are in BOLD)

Statewide Collections:

Chronicling America - Florida

Arcadia, Fla., 1895-1911 The champion.
Arcadia, Fla., 1898-1924 The De Soto County news.
Chipley, Washington County, Fla., 1893-1943 The Chipley banner.
Crawfordville, Fla., 1897-19?? Gulf Coast breeze.
Daytona, Fla., 1???-1901 The gazette-news.
Daytona, Fla., 1901-1922 The Daytona gazette=news.
Daytona, Fla., 1903-1926 The Daytona daily news.
DeLand, Fla., 1878-1911 The Florida agriculturist.
DeLand, Fla., 1887-190? The DeLand weekly news.
DeLand, Volusia County, Fla., 190?-1921 DeLand news.
Fernandina, Fla., 1925-19?? Nassau County leader.
Fort Pierce, Fla., 190?-1920 Fort Pierce news.
Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla., 1905-1920 The St. Lucie County tribune.
Gainesville, Fla., 190?-1938 Gainesville daily sun.
Gainesville, Fla., 1903-19?? The Gainesville star.
Gainesville, Fla., 1906-190? The university news.
Jacksonville, Fla., 1905-1908 The sun.
Key West, Fla., 1879-current - The Key West citizen.
Lakeland, Fla., 1911-1922 The Lakeland evening telegram.
Live Oak, Fla., 1897-current Suwannee Democrat.
Live Oak, Fla., 190?-190? Live Oak daily Democrat.
Madison, Fla., 1901-1908 The new enterprise.
Madison, Fla., 1908-1933The Enterprise-recorder.
Ocala, Fla, 1917-19?? The Ocaleean ensign /
Ocala, Fla., 1895-1943 The Ocala evening star.
Ocala, Marion County, Fla., 1883-194? The Ocala banner.
Palatka, Fla., 1884-1888 The Palatka daily news.
Palatka, Fla., 1902-1905 The Palatka news and advertiser.
Palatka, Fla., 1905-1908 The Palatka news.
Palatka, Fla., 1908-19?? The Palatka news and advertiser.
Palatka, Fla., 1919-1994 Palatka daily news.
Panama City, Washington County, Fla., 1907-19?? Panama City pilot.
Pensacola, Fla., 1889-190? The daily news.
Pensacola, Fla., 1898-1985 The Pensacola journal.
Punta Gorda, Fla., 1893-1958 The Punta Gorda herald.
San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla, 189?-19?? The San Mateo item.
Starke, Fla., 1888-current Bradford County telegraph.
Tallahassee, Fla., 18??-1905 The Weekly Tallahasseean.
Tallahassee, Fla., 1905-1912 The weekly true Democrat.
Tallahassee, Fla., 1907-19?? The Morning sun.
Titusville, Fla., 1880-1917 The Florida star.

Google News Archive

Boca Raton - Boca Raton News
Bristol - The Calhoun-Liberty Journal
Daytona Beach - The Sunday News Journal
Daytona Beach - The News-Journal
Daytona Beach - Daytona Beach Morning Journal
Daytona Beach - The Volusian
Daytona Beach - Daytona Beach Morning Journal and Daytona Beach Evening News
Daytona Beach - Daytona Beach News Journal
Daytona Beach - Daytona Beach Sunday News-Journal
Defuniak Springs - The Beach Breeze
DeFuniak Springs - The DeFuniak Springs Herald
DeFuniak Springs - The Breeze and The Defuniak Herald
Florala - The Florala News
Gainesville - Gainesville Sun
Gainesville - The Gainesville Sun Sunday
Lakeland - Lakeland Ledger
Ocala - Ocala Star-Banner
Orlando - Heritage Florida Jewish News
Sarasota - Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Sarasota - Sarasota Journal
St. Petersburg - Sunday Independent
St. Petersburg - St. Petersburg Times
St. Petersburg - St. Petersburg Daily Times
St. Petersburg - St. Petersburg Evening Independent
St. Petersburg - The Evening Independent
St. Petersburg - St. Petersburg Independent
Tallahassee - Fsview and The Florida Flambeau
Tallahassee - Fsview & Florida Flambeau

Florida Digital Newspaper Library (Number of issues in parentheses)

Alachua County Today (198 issues)
Alligator times (4 issues)
Ancient city (148 issues)
Apalachicola courier (4 issues)
Apalachicola gazette. (182 issues)
Apalachicola times (497 issues)
Apopka Chief (684 issues)
Arcadian. (331 issues)
avance criollo. (42 issues)
Babcock Ranch telegraph (11 issues)
Baker County Press (710 issues)
Banner (108 issues)
Bay beacon (483 issues)
Beach post (20 issues)
Beaches leader. (256 issues)
Belong Magazine (4 items)
Biscayne Boulevard times (4 issues)
Biscayne times (144 issues)
Boca Raton tribune (262 issues)
Bradford County Telegraph. (4932 issues)
Calhoun-Liberty Journal (Bristol, Fla.). (856 issues)
Caloosa belle (628 issues)
Cedar Key beacon (199 issues)
Chai Life (29 issues)
champion. (98 issues)
Charlotte sun herald (1954 issues)
Chiefland citizen (199 issues)
Chipley banner. (337 issues)
Citizen=reporter. (55 issues)
Citrus County chronicle (4992 issues)
Clay today (704 issues)
Clearwater news (Clearwater, Fla.) (52 issues)
Clewiston news (1733 issues)
Coastal courier (121 issues)
Collegiate digest (3 items)
Columbia Democrat (Alligator, Fla.) (9 issues)
Columbian (Lake City, Fla.) (2 issues)
Commercial advertiser (Apalachicola, Fla. : 1843) (158 issues)
Cotton states (Micanopy, Fla.) (9 issues)
County record (324 issues)
Courier (Plant City, Fla.) (147 issues)
CreekLine (101 issues)
Crestview News Bulletin (1354 issues)
Crystal River news. (82 issues)
Dade City banner (2887 issues)
Daily advocate (Gainesville, Fla.) (3 issues)
Daily bee (Gainesville, Fla.) (2 issues)
Daily Commercial (1805 issues)
Daily Florida citizen (Jacksonville, Fla.) (8 issues)
Daily Florida standard (Jacksonville, Fla.) (2 issues)
Daily item (Ocala, Fla.) (2 issues)
Daily Sentinel (176 issues)
Daytona Daily News (1323 issues)
De Soto County news (Arcadia, Fla.) (115 issues)
DeFuniak Herald combined with the Breeze. (714 issues)
DeLand news. (50 issues)
DeLand Sun News (301 issues)
DeLand Weekly News (138 issues)
Delray Beach News (137 issues)
Delray Beach News-Journal (145 issues)
Delray Newspaper (29 issues)
Different Drummer (5 issues)
Dixie (Jacksonville, FL) (4 issues)
Dixie County advocate. (317 issues)
Drew Field echoes. (99 items)
East Coast advocate. (484 issues)
East Florida advocate (Jacksonville, Fla.) (6 issues)
East Florida banner (Ocala, Fla.) (16 issues)
East Florida Courier (3 issues)
East Floridian (Fernandina, Fla.) (10 issues)
East Orlando sun (9 issues)
Eastern Herald (Palatka, Fla.) (10 issues)
Eglin flyer (33 issues)
Enterprise-recorder (215 issues)
Everglades News (461 issues)
Eye (12 issues)
Family friend. (140 issues)
Fernandina Beach news-leader. (157 issues)
Fernandina express. (83 issues)
Fernandina news (Fernandina, Fla. : 1891) (55 issues)
Fernandina news-record (7 issues)
Fernandina observer (Fernandina, Fla.) (3 issues)
Fernandina record (3 issues)
Flagler Tribune (569 issues)
Florida agriculturist (De Land, Fla.). (348 issues)
Florida agriculturist (Jacksonville, Fla.) (4 issues)
Florida alligator. (1767 issues)
Florida Argus, and Pensacola literary, agricultural & commercial ... (22 issues)
Florida Catholic (157 issues)
Florida Christian advocate. (6 issues)
Florida Democrat and mechanic's and workingman's advocate (Pensac... (9 issues)
Florida dispatch (Jacksonville, Fla.) (3 issues)
Florida dispatch (Live Oak, Fla.) (105 issues)
Florida dispatch (Newnansville, Fla.) (2 issues)
Florida dispatch and farmer and fruit grower (13 issues)
Florida dispatch. (42 items)
Florida farmer & fruit grower (Jacksonville, Fla. : 1887) (49 issues)
Florida farmer & fruit grower (Jacksonville, Fla. : 1893) (423 issues)
Florida Herald (145 issues)
Florida Herald and Southern Democrat (334 issues)
Florida home companion (Ocala, Fla.) (15 issues)
Florida Immigrant (12 issues)
Florida index (Lake City, Fla.) (524 issues)
Florida Intelligencer (18 issues)
Florida journal (Apalachicola, Fla. : 1840) (3 issues)
Florida Keys keynoter. (1140 issues)
Florida mirror (Fernandina, Fla.) (317 issues)
Florida news (Jacksonville, Fla. : 1852) (276 issues)
Florida Republican (Jacksonville, Fla. : 1848) (364 issues)
Florida Republican (Jacksonville, Fla.) (2 issues)
Florida review (4 items)
Florida sentinel (Tallahassee, Fla.) (309 issues)
Florida star (Jacksonville, FL) (1395 items)
Florida star (Titusville, FL) (734 issues)
Florida Telegraph. (2 issues)
Florida times-union (Jacksonville, Fla. : 1883) (7 issues)
Florida union (Jacksonville, Fla. : weekly) (147 issues)
Florida watchman (Tallahassee, Fla.) (7 issues)
Florida weekly (129 issues)
Florida weekly (217 issues)
Florida weekly (415 issues)
Florida's financial and industrial record. (27 issues)
Floridian and Journal. (588 issues)
Fort Pierce news. (171 issues)
Franklin chronicle (348 issues)
Franklin county chronicle (52 issues)
free press (3 issues)
Frostproof news (700 issues)
Gabber (578 issues)
Gaceta (1150 issues)
Gadsden County Times (496 issues)
Gainesville daily sun. (2326 issues)
Gainesville iguana. (98 issues)
Gainesville star. (148 issues)
Gainesville sun (Gainesville, Fla. : 1963) (310 issues)
Gainesville sun. (624 issues)
gazette-news (4 issues)
Gilchrist County journal. (697 issues)
Glades County Democrat. (775 issues)
Gosport (Pensacola, Fla.) (148 items)
Gulf Coast breeze. (89 issues)
Gulf Defender (31 issues)
Halyard (46 issues)
Herald-advocate. (717 items)
Hernando news (Brooksville, Fla.) (2 issues)
Hernando sun (22 issues)
Highlands news-sun (795 issues)
Hollywood Gazette (110 issues)
Holmes County times-advertiser (488 issues)
Hometown news (Daytona Beach, FL) (602 issues)
Hometown news (Martin County, FL) (609 issues)
Hometown news (Melbourne, FL) (609 issues)
Hometown news (Palm Beach Gardens, FL) (71 issues)
Hometown news (Port Orange, FL) (604 issues)
Hometown news (Port St. Lucie, FL) (605 issues)
Hometown news (Sebastian, FL) (503 issues)
Hometown news (Vero Beach, FL) (595 issues)
Howey tribune (12 issues)
Hurlburt patriot (20 issues)
Immokalee bulletin (446 issues)
Independent Florida Alligator (2495 items)
Indian River advocate and East Coast chronicle. (104 issues)
Indian River advocate. (217 issues)
Island City News. (3 issues)
Island sun (Sanibel, Fla.) (456 issues)
Island times (329 issues)
Islander (Anna Maria, Fla. : 1992) (1368 issues)
Islander (Anna Maria, Fla.) (254 issues)
Jackson County Floridan (2147 issues)
Jacksonville courier (Jacksonville, Fla.) (60 issues)
Jacksonville free press (657 issues)
Jacksonville standard (Jacksonville, Fla.) (9 issues)
Jacobean, The Voice of Jacob (11 issues)
Jasper news (Jasper, Fla.) (819 issues)
Jax air news. (2272 issues)
Jefferson County journal (406 issues)
Jewish Floridian (Miami, Fla.) (3158 issues)
Jewish Floridian (Palm Beach, Fla. : December 24, 1982-August 30... (113 issues)
Jewish Floridian and Shofar of Greater Hollywood (344 issues)
Jewish Floridian of greater Ft. Lauderdale (565 issues)
Jewish Floridian of North Broward (65 issues)
Jewish Floridian of Palm Beach County (Palm Beach, Fla. : Februar... (225 issues)
Jewish Floridian of Palm Beach County (Palm Beach, Fla. : Septemb... (167 issues)
Jewish Floridian of Pinellas County (109 issues)
Jewish Floridian of South Broward (182 issues)
Jewish Floridian of South County (364 issues)
Jewish Floridian of Tampa (342 issues)
Jewish News of Sarasota-Manatee (87 issues)
Jewish Press of Pinellas County (193 issues)
Jewish Press of Tampa (194 issues)
Jewish Unity. (3 issues)
Kennedy Space Center annual report (19 items)
Key look out. (4 issues)
Key of the Gulf (Key West, Fla. : 1855) (14 issues)
Key West citizen (Key West, Fla.) (599 issues)
Key West Democrat. (10 issues)
Key West dispatch (Key West, Fla.) (3 issues)
Key West enquirer (Key West, Fla.) (80 issues)
Key West gazette (Key West, Fla.) (2 issues)
Key West gazette. (51 issues)
Key West morning journal. (133 issues)
Kissimmee Valley (257 issues)
Kissimmee Valley gazette. (1132 issues)
Lake City reporter (3457 issues)
Lake Region Monitor (236 issues)
Lake Wales news (94 issues)
Lakeland Ledger (138 issues)
Laker (88 issues)
Laker (Wesley Chapel Edition) (270 issues)
Laker (Zephyrhills edition) (303 issues)
Largo leader (441 issues)
L'CHAYIM (76 issues)
Levy County journal. (576 issues)
Levy times-Democrat (Bronson, Fla.). (22 issues)
Live oak (Pensacola, Fla.) (4 issues)
Live Oak daily Democrat. (219 issues)
Lutz news (354 issues)
Madison County Carrier (645 issues)
Madison enterprise-recorder. (847 issues)
Mandarin newsline (101 issues)
Mayo free press (716 issues)
Miami herald (3 issues)
Miami times (1316 issues)
Miccosukee Everglades news (9 issues)
Mirror (Mayport, FL) (546 issues)
Missileer (91 issues)
Monticello news (Monticello, Fla.). (1877 issues)
Morning Sun (95 issues)
Morning Tribune (Tampa, Florida) (165 issues)
Mullet Rapper (291 issues)
Nassau County leader (32 issues)
neutral. (12 issues)
new enterprise. (515 issues)
New era (Gainesville, Fla.) (70 issues)
New era (Key West, Fla.) (2 issues)
New South (Jacksonville, Fla. : 1874 : Weekly) (9 issues)
new South. (69 issues)
News (Jacksonville, Fl) (158 issues)
News-herald (1601 issues)
News-Leader (Fernandina Beach, Fla.). (1403 issues)
News-sun. (1687 issues)
Observer news (439 issues)
Ocala argus (Ocala, Fla.) (5 issues)
Ocala banner (Ocala, Fla. : 1883) (667 issues)
Ocala evening star. (8121 issues)
Ocaleean ensign (7 issues)
Okeechobee News. (2903 issues)
Okeechobee News. (351 issues)
Orlando Morning Sentinel (318 issues)
Osceola news-gazette. (1421 issues)
Out clique magazine (21 items)
Palatka daily news (480 issues)
Palatka daily news (781 issues)
Palatka news and advertiser (580 issues)
Palatka Weekly Advertiser (207 issues)
Palatka weekly times. (24 issues)
Palette (16 items)
Panama City pilot. (84 issues)
Pasco East (207 issues)
Pasco news (1409 issues)
Peninsula (Fernandina, Fla.) (3 issues)
Pensacola commercial (Pensacola, Fla. : 1883) (501 issues)
Pensacola commercial (Pensacola, Fla. : 1888) (605 issues)
Pensacola evening news. (14 issues)
Pensacola Gazette (441 issues)
Pensacola Gazette and Florida Advertiser (94 issues)
Pensacola Gazette and West Florida Advertiser (185 issues)
Pensacola journal. (5948 issues)
Pensacola semi=weekly commercial. (6 issues)
Perry News-Herald (Perry, Fla.) (717 issues)
Phoenix (5 issues)
Pinellas news. (269 issues)
Plant City courier & tribune (83 issues)
Polk County Democrat (Bartow, Fla.). (1252 issues)
Pompano Pelican (516 issues)
Ponte Vedra leader. (255 issues)
Punta Gorda herald. (526 issues)
Putnam County Courier Journal (267 issues)
Quincy times (Quincy, Fla.) (2 issues)
River weekly news (457 issues)
Riverland news (438 issues)
San Mateo item. (72 issues)
Santa Rosa's press gazette (1403 issues)
Sarasota News Leader (98 issues)
Seald-sweet chronicle (35 issues)
Seminole beacon (438 issues)
Seminole voice (198 issues)
Shpiel. (50 issues)
Solares Hill (408 issues)
Soleil de la Floride (375 issues)
South Lake press (307 issues)
South Marion Citizen (433 issues)
Southern rights (Jacksonville, Fla.) (2 issues)
Southern sun (Ocala, Fla.) (2 issues)
Southernmost flyer (244 issues)
Spaceport magazine (55 items)
Spaceport news (451 items)
St. Andrews buoy. (292 issues)
St. Augustine Beaches News Journal (60 issues)
St. Augustine examiner (Saint Augustine, Fla.) (244 issues)
St. Augustine record (Saint Augustine, Fla.) (2 issues)
St. Augustine Shores Observer (67 issues)
St. Cloud tribune (3 issues)
St. Lucie County tribune. (283 issues)
Star (Port Saint Joe, Fla.). (4155 issues)
Star of the west (Apalachicola, Fla.) (3 issues)
Star-advocate. (158 issues)
Summer gator (29 items)
Sumter County times. (890 issues)
Sun (Belle Glade, Fla.). (667 issues)
sun. (52 issues)
Sunland tribune (Tampa, Fla.) (244 issues)
Suwannee Democrat. (1566 issues)
Syrian Lebanese star. (77 issues)
Taco times. (711 issues)
Tallahassee sentinel (Tallahassee, Fla.) (105 issues)
Tampa herald. (2 issues)
Tampa tribune (Tampa, Fla.) (125 issues)
Tarpon Springs Beacon (20 issues)
Telegraph (Cedar Key, Fla.) (2 issues)
The Clay County crescent. (156 issues)
The Daily Equator-Democrat. (13 issues)
The Daily Miami metropolis. (932 issues)
The daily news. (1083 issues)
The daily news. (259 issues)
The Daytona gazette news. (467 issues)
The Florida peninsular. (495 issues)
The Florida times. (23 issues)
The Florida Weekly Advocate (145 issues)
The Floridian. (654 issues)
The Fort Myers press. (102 issues)
The Homestead Leader (738 issues)
The Key West Advertiser (3 issues)
The Key West over-sea Sunday star. (2 issues)
The Kissimmee gazette. (311 issues)
The leader-enterprise. (665 issues)
The Miami metropolis. (729 issues)
The morning sentinel. (589 issues)
The news leader. (131 issues)
The news-herald (72 issues)
The Palatka news. (302 issues)
The Semi-weekly Floridian. (190 issues)
The Starke Telegraph. (52 issues)
The Stuart news. (208 issues)
The Weekly Miami metropolis. (14 issues)
Times-herald (Palatka, Fla.) (117 issues)
Trench and camp (11 issues)
Tri-weekly union (Jacksonville, Fla.) (157 issues)
Tropical sun. (603 issues)
Tuskawilla news (Micanopy, Fla.) (15 issues)
Tyndall target. (117 items)
Union County times. (696 issues)
university news. (5 issues)
Venice gondolier (Venice, Fla. : 1946) (261 issues)
Venice gondolier sun. (1790 issues)
Veteran voice (152 issues)
Volusia County record (De Land, Fla. : 1888) (314 issues)
Wakulla County news. (206 issues)
Wakulla news. (705 issues)
Washington County news (1366 issues)
Waterfront news. (320 issues)
Waterfront times (99 issues)
Web defender (57 issues)
Weekly Florida citizen (Jacksonville, Fla.) (3 issues)
Weekly Floridian (227 issues)
Weekly industrial record. (345 issues)
weekly sun. (20 issues)
Weekly Tallahasseean. (89 issues)
Weekly Tribune (Tampa, Florida) (126 issues)
weekly true Democrat. (238 issues)
West Marion messenger (437 issues)
West Orange times (707 issues)
West-Florida times (Pensacola, Fla.) (4 issues)
Whig banner (Palatka, Fla.) (6 issues)
Whiting tower (275 issues)
Williston pioneer sun news (198 issues)
Winter Haven Daily News-Chief (310 issues)
Winter Park advocate (2 issues)
Winter Park-Maitland observer (520 issues)
WomaNews : Gainesville's Feminist Newspaper. (28 issues)