The Brown Publishing Co. has agreed to purchase 23 newspapers from Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.

The newspapers include 11 dailies and 12 weeklies — located in Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee — with a total distribution to more than 250,000 households. Additional terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

“These newspapers have a long, successful history of serving their communities, and we are pleased CNHI chose us to succeed to their ownership,” said Roy Brown, president and chief executive officer of Brown Publishing.

The 11 paid daily newspapers are: Portsmouth (Ohio) Daily Times; Gallipolis (Ohio) Daily Tribune; Pomeroy (Ohio) Daily Sentinel; Harlan (Ky.) Daily Enterprise; Middlesboro (Ky.) Daily News; Lumberton (N.C.) Daily Robesonian; Clinton (N.C.) Sampson Independent; Tarboro (N.C.) Daily Southerner; McDonough (Ga.) Henry Herald; Jonesboro (Ga.) Clayton News Daily; and Point Pleasant (W.Va.) Register.

The 12 paid weekly newspapers are: Russellville (Ky.) News-Democrat and Leader; Hazard (Ky.) Herald; Prestonsburg (Ky.) Floyd County Times; Leitchfield (Ky.) Grayson County News-Gazette; Tazewell (Tenn.) Claiborne County Progress; Lafayette (Tenn.) Macon County Times; Elizabethtown (N.C.) Bladen County Journal; Fuqua-Varina (N.C.) Independent; Garner (N.C.) News; Apex (N.C.) Herald; Jackson (Ga.) Progress-Argus; and the Thomaston (Ga.) Times.

CNHI will continue to operate 95 daily newspapers as well as 58 non-daily and 149 specialty publications in 21 states. Brown Publishing will control 25 paid daily and 29 paid weekly newspapers in six states with a combined daily circulation of 190,000 and weekly distribution of more than 750,000 households.