BEAUFORT DISTRICT COLLECTION
LOCAL NEWSPAPER HOLDINGS LIST
22 September 2015
Unless otherwise indicated, these newspapers are on microfilm in the Beaufort
District Collection. *(One- asterisk symbol) indicates that entries for at least some of the
issues of the newspaper are in the Online Obituary Index found at
http://beaufortcountylibrary.org/obituary-files/public/deadpeople_list.php?a=showall.
19th Century
Palmetto Herald (March 17, 1864 - December 29, 1864)
Free South (January 17, 1863 - November 19, 1864)
New South (March 15, 1861 - September 29, 1866) – also online at
http://library.sc.edu/digital/collections/newsouth.html
Beaufort Republican (October 12, 1871 - October 16, 1873) – also online at
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042623/
Port Royal Commercial and Beaufort County Republican (October 23, 1873 April 1874)
20th Century
*Palmetto Post (January 5, 1882 - December 27, 1906)
*Beaufort Gazette (July 16, 1903 - Present)
*County Democrat (July 20, 1910 - December 1, 1911)
Beaufort Times (June 21, 1944 - December 20, 1945)
Sea Islander (September 13, 1968 - December 1974)
*Island Packet (January 1974 - Present)
BDC Newspaper List
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Hilton Head Report (January 1986 - March 1988)
Bluffton Eccentric (June 25, 1987 – December 31, 1991) – Hardcopy only
Hilton Head Sun (February 1988 - May 1989)
Lowcountry Ledger (December 1988 - December 1991) – Hardcopy and microfilm
Hilton Head News (January - December 1993; January - December 1996)
Beaufort Catalyst (May 22, 1993 - December 31, 1995)
Bluffton Packet (January 1994 - December 1995)
Hilton Head News (January - December 1993; January - December 1996)
21st Century
*Beaufort Gazette/Island Packet (These newspapers more or less merged in April 2010 –
Present)
*Beaufort Today (HARDCOPY only)
*Bluffton Today
*Hilton Head Island Today
Island News (HARDCOPY only)
NOTE 1: We do not have an index to the newspapers on microfilm collections other than a
partial and highly selective index to article titles from approximately 1882 to about 1936 for the
Palmetto Post and Beaufort Gazette. This index to broad categories of articles is available
inside the Research Room.
NOTE 2: We provide an online index to the obituaries drawn from select of these newspapers at
http://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org/htdocs-sirsi/bdc/newobits_xml.html. The bulk of the
obituaries indexed were published from 1882 to 1995 though the breadth of coverage is 1862 to
the present. *(One- asterisk symbol) indicates that entries for at least some of the issues of the
newspaper are in the obituary index.
BDC Newspaper List
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