News and Newspapers

Marion County Newspapers

Listing of current and historic newspapers for the county

http://pella.advantage-preservation.com

The link above is a searchable database of most of Pella's newspapers up to 2020. These are free and you can download pages. In Marion County, only the Pella newspapers have been scanned and processed by the Advantage Archives company, a Cedar Rapids company that is scanning many Iowa newspapers to archive them. To see other places they have worked, check here. Many other Iowa locations have been scanned. Check out the map of Iowa for these locations.

History of the Press

Excerpt from History of Marion County, Iowa Volume I, pp. 267-274, by Wright and Young (1915)

News of early murders in Marion County

Excerpts from some early newspapers

Nancee's Page

Nancee (McMurtrey) Seifert contributes these items relating to Marion County from old issues of The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Lucas County, Iowa

Iowa Old Press

This page gives sporadic excerpts of various issues of newspapers from the past. There is also a search engine on the project page.

Other options on this site

This listing gives options for other counties within Iowa and also other general interest (national) sites to consider.