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 The "Bordentown
Palladium" was founded in 1845 as a weekly community
paper serving the Bordentown region of Burlington County, New Jersey,
an area six miles south of Trenton. The newspaper was renamed "Bordentown Register" in
1851 and renamed again in 1966 to"Register-News".
Over its 160 years of publication, the newspaper has chronicled the
history of the Bordentown region, including local news for surrounding
towns of Fieldsboro, Florence, Roebling, Columbus, Chesterfield, Mansfield, and Yardville,
marriages and death notices, legislative news, judicial announcements, business and
social concerns of the area. Of special note is the news
of hometown soldiers in the Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korean, and Vietnam Wars and subseqent.
The "Bordentown Register" and "Register-News" are available on microfilm from May 25, 1855 to December 28, 2006.
The microfilm is owned by the Burlington County
Library Headquarters in Westampton, NJ and the Bordentown
Branch Library in Bordentown, NJ. Research and photocopies will be done upon request for
a fee. Please contact the BCLS Reference Department for
further information.
The Bordentown Branch Library staff and volunteers are currently indexing the newspaper with
39,871 citations in the database to date.
Generous funding for the preservation microfilming of this newspaper was provided by the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State.
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