The Echo

The Local Studies section in Springwood library has a fascinating history of local papers in the Blue
Mountains  starting with The Mountain Advertiser in the mid 1870’s, followed by another 42 individual papers since then, and that is not counting the publications produced mainly for visitors!

The Echo is a very traditional name for a newspaper but is especially appropriate for this area with
Echo Point in Katoomba. The first Blue Mountains Echo circulated from 1909 to 1928. The second
Blue Mountains Echo ran from1939 for a very short time and the third one was published from1981 until
1989.