Elgin Courier

The Elgin Courier

The Elgin Courier building
Type	Weekly newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Granite Publications, Inc.
Publisher	Marie Ott [1]
Editor	Julianne Hodges
Founded	1890
Circulation	1,743 (as of 2023)[2]
Website	elgincourier.com

Elgin Courier is a newspaper in Elgin, Texas, United States.

History

Founded by Miles Hill, the paper has been published on a weekly basis since 1890.^[3] Though it was not the first paper in Elgin –prior to 1890 there was The Meteor, The Times, and others^[4] – it has long been the paper of record for not just Elgin, but much of the surrounding communities of McDade, Coupland, and other areas in Bastrop County, along with The Bastrop Advertiser and media from the larger city of Austin.^[5]

The paper was purchased by Julian O. Smith in 1901,^[6] who published it until 1948, and saw it through a period of major growth. The Courier is owned by Blackland Publications, who also owns local Texas papers such as the Hill Country News, Taylor Press, and others.^[1]

References

1. "About us", elgincourier.com, retrieved 2013-09-02
2. "2023 Texas Newspaper Directory". Texas Press Association. Archived from the original on 2023-05-03. Retrieved 2023-05-03.
3. Bill Bradfield; William H. Bradfield; Clare Bradfield (1 November 1998), Muleshoe & More: The Remarkable Stories Behind the Naming of Texas Towns, Rowman & Littlefield, p. 63, ISBN 978-0-88415-865-3
4. Sydna Davis Arbuckle; Judy Davis (26 November 2012), Elgin, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7385-9519-1
5. David Wharton (1 July 2000), The Soul of a Small Texas Town: The Photographs, Memories, and History from Mcdade, Texas, University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN 978-0-8061-3178-8
6. Dermot H. Hardy; Ingham S. Roberts (1910), Historical Review of South-east Texas and the Founders, Leaders and Representative Men of Its Commerce, Industry and Civic Affairs, Brookhaven Press, p. 797

External links

• Official website