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Cleburne's Old Newspapers Are Going Online, 1918 Onward

Johnson County History & Culture

Old Cleburne news no longer has to mean a long afternoon with a microfilm reader. The Johnson County Historical Collective formed in 2019 through the Cleburne Public Library and Layland Museum to scan local newspapers and put them online.

A $114,999 TexTreasures grant funded the first big run. Issues of the Cleburne Morning Review and Cleburne Times-Review from 1918 through 1990 are now on the Portal to Texas History, with free full-text search. More than twenty years of microfilm still wait for funding.

That quiet work makes old names, fires, games, and storefronts findable. For family or property history, searchable newspapers are a real shortcut.

Content last revised 2026-07-11

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