The Historic Maryland Newspaper Project at the University of Maryland Libraries is an ongoing effort to digitize historic newspaper content across the state. During the first year of this important project, the University has scanned several titles from Baltimore. There are also serials from Cumberland and Hagerstown.
All ten titles that have been completed are available for free access on the Library of Congress website. Next year additional newspapers from other parts of Maryland will be added. The free, digital access to newspapers is such a valuable resource for genealogists and local history researchers. Of course, there are many newspapers in the State, so the archivists have years of work waiting for them.
Click here to go to a link of the Maryland newspapers now available from the Library of Congress to determine which serials are available and which years for those products have been made available.
