''The Centinel of the Northwest Territory'', published in

Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wit ...

by William Maxwell, was the first

newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...

in the

Northwest Territory The Northwest Territory, also known as the Old Northwest and formally known as the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, was formed from unorganized western territory of the United States after the American Revolutionary War. Established in 1 ...

. It appeared November 9, 1793, and weekly thereafter until June 1796, when it was sold to Edmund Freeman and was merged with ''Freeman's Journal''. Subscription was "250 cents" per annum, and 7 cents a single copy. The motto of the ''Centinel'': "Open to all Parties -- but influenced by none," expressed the publisher's aims: to afford an isolated community a medium to make known its varied wants and to record local happenings, as well as those of the outside world. Around 1800, the paper moved to

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, when the government of the

relocated to that city. The paper eventually assumed the name ''The

Chillicothe Gazette The ''Chillicothe Gazette'' is Ohio's oldest newspaper, published daily at Chillicothe, Ohio, the seat of Ross County, Ohio, by Gannett. The paper was founded as a weekly at Cincinnati, Ohio, then the capital of the Northwest Territory, November ...

'' and continues as

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's oldest

. A complete file is in the library of the

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in Cincinnati.

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* Defunct newspapers published in Cincinnati Northwest Territory Publications established in 1793 Publications disestablished in 1796 {{Publishing-stub