Centre Ranger, published by G. P. W. Butler, who formerly published the American Eagle in Huntingdon. No extant copies have been identified, but its name is noted in a Centre County Orphans Court docket entry on January 27, 1813, and publication apparently began sometime after November 25, 1812. The Centre Ranger is believed to have been in existence through 1816. (source: Bob Baker, Centre County Genealogical Society)

American Patriot, published by Alexander Hamilton, a school teacher who went to Harrisburg from Pine Creek Township to learn the trade, brought out the first issue on Feb. 5, 1814.  Hamilton's motto: "To speak his thoughts is everyman's right." The Patriot had struggled from the start and folded in the fall of 1817.

Independent Republican - in September 1816, Hugh Maxwell in September moved his "Advocate of the Union" from Mifflinburg, renamed it "Independent Republican" and published for slightly less than a year before moving to Lancaster.

Bellefonte Patriot -  William Brindle issued the first issue, May 18, 1818.  With the August 28th, 1832 issue, the name was expanded to Bellefonte Patriot and Farmers' Journal.  The paper continued under different publishers until 1838, when it was removed by W. A. Kinslow to Lock Haven and published under the name of the Lycoming Eagle.

Centre County Democrat - On, the 1st of November 1827, Gen. Philip Benner, one of Centre County's pioneer iron masters and a veteran of the American Revolution,  established the Centre County Democrat under the management and editorial control of Thomas Simpson.  Gen. Benner's intention was to provide support Andrew Jackson's presidential campaign.  Gen. Benner later fired Simpson because of an abusive article he wrote about a Quaker, William Platt. 

In 1830, John Bigler, later Governor of Californis,  became editor and on November 16^th 1831, Bigler bought the paper from Gen. Benner.  His brother, William, later governor of Pennsylvania, joins his brother's firm as a printer.

Sometime during 1833, the name was shortened to the Centre Democrat.

On January 10^th 1834, S. T. Shugert bought the paper.  Col. E. V. Everhart became Shugert's business partner in September of 1836, remaining until March 18^th 1837, when he retired due to illness.  John G. Herd became associated with Shugert in February of 1840, but left that August.

John H. McFadden purchased the paper in the fall of 1842.  William H. Blair, later a General in the Civil War, became McFadden's partner on February 5, 1845.  In September, Blair became the editor and owner.

James F. Weaver, who was to earn fame as a Union Army Colonel during the Civil War, purchased the paper in May 1852, and edited it as a Democratic paper until November 4^th 1854, when it was purchased by M P. Crosswaithe and W. W. Brown and became the political organ of the "Know-Nothing Party."  They published the paper until the outbreak of the Civil War in April at 1861, at which time the publishers and his staff, "to a man," volunteered for duty with the Union Army, leaving for duty of at the front, forcing the paper to suspend operations.

With the end of the Civil War in 1865, and the return to Bellefonte of then Col. W. W. Brown, new materials were purchased and the paper was reopened.

In 1879, J. Dunlop Shugert and Maj. R. H. Foster bought the Centre Democrat with Shugert managing and Foster editing the paper they began printing from the former office of the recently defunct Centre Herald. After a seventeen year absence, the Centre Democrat reappeared of the streets of Bellefonte on January 2, 1879.  At first, the Democrat was a "patent sheet," as the inside four pages were preprinted in New York, and combined with the outside four pages of local news.  After a brief period, Ellis L. Orvis, who later became a Centre County Judge, succeeded Maj. Foster as editor and remained in that position until November 1888 when the paper was purchased by Frank and George Bible.  The Bible brothers brought Charles G. Kurtz, a native of Aaronsburg, to Bellefonte to edit the paper.  Frank and George Bible sold the paper.  In July of 1895, Kurtz purchased the entire business, which since 1888 had been owned by stock company.  Charles Kurtz died in 1924 and his wife continued operating the paper until April 1st, 1925 when she sold the Democrat to the Walker brothers, Ivan, Cecil an Milan.  On January 3rd, 1958 both the Centre Democrat and the Keystone Gazette were sold to a new corporation composed of Hugo Flear and Richard Eichelbeilger of Bedford, Blair Bice of Martinsburg, Jack Wilkinson of Bellefonte. In August 1959 the Gazette was combined with the Democrat and W. K. Ulerich, Clearfield, became majority stockholder.  The corporate business was operated under the name of Centre Democrat, Inc.  Donald Shoemaker, Bedford, Pa., a member of the staff of Mr. Bice's paper, came to Bellefonte in the summer of 1958 and was named publisher of the Centre Democratic by the Corporation.  Later he also assumed to position and editor and remained indisposition until mid-February of 1964. In the summer of 1959, W. K. Ulerich, publisher of the Clearfield Progress, became the majority stockholder's and also purchasing Mr. Wilkinson's interest in the paper.  The corporate structure was organized under the name of Centre Newspapers, Inc.  The Democrat's flat bed press was sold in 1961 and the paper was printed in Clearfield. 

In 1933, the newspaper located its printing plant and editorial office on West High Street, in a building next to the YMCA.  They operated at that location until September of 1961, when that building was sold and torn down.

On March 1st, 1964 a new company, the Centre County Publishing Co., composed of John Chamberlin and Philip Miles of Tyrone and a former owner, Blair Bice, bought the Democrat. The printing of the paper was transferred to the Tyrone Herald.

In 1970 Miss Judith Rife bought the Centre Democrat.

Free Press - started by the Federalists or Whigs on September 4, 1838, under the management of James. F. Hale, Esq., Dr. Harris, and Isaac B. Gara.  It was in existence only until October of 1839.

Democratic Whig - started in 1841 by John Kidd Shoemaker, the Democratic Whig, advocating the principles of the party of the same name.  Later, when the Whig party shattered, Shoemaker editorialized in favor of the Free