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Local Historical Newspapers and Books
 

The city of publication is listed in parentheses if the city's name is not in the title. All of the newspapers listed are housed in the Kennewick library, except as indicated in capital letters. The format is listed in brackets.

 Newspapers

  • Benton County News (Benton City) October 1921 (film)
  • Benton County Times (Benton City) 1956-1969 (film)
  • Benton Independent (Prosser) 1909-1913 (film)
  • Benton County Advocate (Richland) 1925-1942 (film)
  • Columbia Basin News (Pasco) 1950-1963 (bound) KENNEWICK and PASCO
  • Columbia Courier (Kennewick) 1903-1905 (film)
  • Columbia Journal (Pasco) one issue each 1910, 1911 PASCO
  • Connell Globe 1923-1924; 1928; 1930; 1935-1938 KENNEWICK
  • Connell News 1949-1953 (paper)
  • Connell Statesman and News-Recorder (film) miscellaneous issues 1903-1904 KENNEWICK
  • Connell Tribune-Register (film) miscellaneous issues 1915; 1916; 1917; 1919 KENNEWICK
  • Courier Herald (Kennewick) 1949-1950 (bound and film)
  • Finley-Hover Columbian one issue 1933; miscellaneous issues 1935-1938 (film)
  • Franklin County Enterprise (Kahlotus) 1964-1970 (paper) 1971-1978 (bound)
  • Franklin County Graphic (Connell) 1955-1965 (paper) 1968-1986 (bound) 1987-date (paper)
  • Franklin Recorder (Pasco) 1897 (paper) PASCO
  • General Electric News (Richland) 1959-1964 (bound)
  • Hanford Columbian few issues 1912; 1915; 1916 (film)
  • Hanford Herald one issue 1922 (film)
  • Hanford Project News (Richland) 1965-1967 (bound)
  • Independent Record (Prosser) 1913-1920 (film)
  • Independent Record and Republican-Bulletin (Prosser) 1920 (film)
  • Kahlotus Enterprise 1963 (paper)
  • Kennewick Courier 1905-1914 (film)
  • Kennewick Courier-Reporter 1914-1950 (film); 1939, 1941(bound)
  • Kennewick Reporter 1908-1909; 1911-1914 (film)
  • News Recorder 1897 (paper); 1898-1901 (film) PASCO
  • News-Tribune (Attalia) 1916-1930 (film)
  • Othello Outlook 5/1951-8/1970, 1/1980-12/1991 (film) OTHELLO
  • Othello Progress News 9/1947-3/1951 (film) OTHELLO
  • Othello Times 2/1908-12/1938 (film) OTHELLO
  • Pasco Empire 1949 (paper) PASCO Pasco Express 1905-1915 (film) PASCO
  • Pasco Express and Progress 1915-1918 (film) PASCO
  • Pasco Herald 1918-1931; 1936-1938; (film) 1931-1935; 1938-1947 (bound) PASCO
  • Pasco News 1949-1950 (bound) PASCO
  • Prosser Bulletin 1903-1907 (film)
  • Prosser Falls Bulletin 1903 (film)
  • Prosser Record issues in one issue 1899; miscellaneous 1901; 2 issues 1906; 1909-1912 (film)
  • Prosser Record-Bulletin 1920-1941 (film); 1949-date (bound)
  • Republican Bulletin (Prosser) 1907-1920 (film)
  • Richland Advocate 1916-1925 (film)
  • Richland Villager 1949-1950; 1960-1962 (bound) PASCO
  • Sky Writer (Pasco Naval Air Station) 1942-1945 (bound) PASCO
  • Tri-City Herald 1949-1964 (bound); 1965-date (film) 1948-1969 (bound); 1970-date (film) PASCO
  • Tumbleweed (Camp Hanford) 1957-1961 (bound)
  • Twin-City Reporter (Kennewick) 1909-1911 (film)
  • Wallula Gateway one issue 1916 (film)
  • Wallula Weekly Herald one issue 1888 2 issues 1890 (film)
  • White Bluffs Spokesman 1915-1938 (film)

Sample of Local History Books

  • Franklin County Court House Records 1884-1972 (1972)
  • Great memories: early Hanford and the Tri-Cities (1994)
  • History of Adams County, Washington (1986)
  • History of the Yakima Valley, Washington (1919)
  • Illustrated history of the Big Bend country (1904)
  • Kin-i-wak, Kenewick, Tehe, Kennewick (1986)
  • Legend and legacy: fifty years of defense production at the Hanford site (1992)
  • On the home front: the Cold War legacy of the Hanford nuclear site (1992)
  • Railroads, reclamation and the river, a history of Pasco (1978)
  • Records of Yakima County, Washington 1869-1907 and Benton County, Washington 1905-1907 (5v)
  • Births, Deaths, Marriages, Probate, Newspaper abstracts
  • Richland: celebrating its heritage (1994)
  • Tales of Richland, White Bluffs and Hanford, 1805-1943 (1979)
  • Tombstone inscriptions of Adams County, Washington (1971)
  • Tombstone inscriptions of Franklin County (1971)
  • Tri-Cities: the Mid-Columbia Hub (1990)
  • Yakima County Territorial Census (including Benton County) 1871, 1883, 1885, 1887

For more information contact Tom Moak 509-586-3156 or in WA 1-800-572-6251.

 
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