Newspapers - Calhoun County, Arkansas

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Thornton Tablet

December 1886

owned by Ranes & Graham

Purchased 1887 by Mr. W. T. Brickell and renamed the paper Thornton Record. Later it was sold and moved to Hampton in 1888.

Calhoun County Courier

owned by Pickett & Tomlinson, first edition July 5, 1888

Calhoun Courier was the new name when purchased in December 1889 by J. Houston Peacher

*The Calhoun Herald

12 March 1953 - 10 April 1969

Changed to the South Arkansas Accent on 17 April 1969

*Arkansas Plain Dealer

17 January 1954 - 30 December 1954

1 January 1959 - 31 December 1959

*South Arkansas Accent

17 April 1969 -

15 February 1995

Changed to the South Arkansas Sun ca. 1996

South Arkansas Sun

Current Newspaper still in publication.

P. O. Box 1069

Hampton, AR 71744

870-798-3786

Lookup available for Obituaries.

NOTE: * Denotes that these papers are archived at the Arkansas History Commission Archives in Little Rock.