Six Towns Times

Six Towns Times
	A front page of the newspaper from 1894
Type	Weekly newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Publisher	Libby & Smith
Editor	Charles Thornton Libby
Founded	November 3, 1892
Ceased publication	1916 (108 years ago)
Headquarters	Freeport, Maine, U.S.
Circulation	900

The Six Towns Times was a six-column, eight-page weekly newspaper focused on the news of six towns in southern Maine, United States.^[1] It was published on Fridays in Portland, Maine,^[2] by Libby & Smith,^[3] between 1892 and 1916.^[4]^[5]^[6] It reported the news of six towns: Cumberland, Freeport (where the newspaper was headquartered),^[7] Harpswell, North Yarmouth, Pownal and Yarmouth.^[8]

In its early days, the newspaper's title was Six Towns Times: Yarmouth Gazette and Freeport Sentinel.

The newspaper had a circulation of 900 during its peak years.^[9]

Its editor was Charles Thornton Libby (1861–1948).^[8] Yarmouth historian William Hutchinson Rowe called the publication a "lost but not forgotten institution."^[5]

References

^ "Maine Newspaper Project | Maine State Library Research | Digital Maine". digitalmaine.com. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
^ The Town Register: Benton, Clinton, Fairfield, 1909, Mitchell Publishing Company (1909), p. 152
^ American Newspaper Directory (1899), p. 403
^ "Looking For Volunteers" - Freeport Historical Society
^ ^a ^b Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine 1636-1936: A History, William Hutchinson Rowe (1937)
^ "National Newspaper Directory and Gazetteer" - Google Books
^ Marketing Communications, volume 17, "Printers' Ink" (1896), p. 31
^ ^a ^b Report, Maine Press Association, p. 31
^ A Statistical Study of the Newspapers of the United States, Roy Laverne French (1924), p. 172

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