The Oldest Newspaper In Texas

Some friends of mine, Kyle and Marita Beth, have a little project going in which they each take a photo a day and publish it on their blog The Daily KRuMB.

One of MB’s (far left) latest photos was of the old Galveston News building in Galveston, Texas and it made me think of something I heard growing up on the beaches of Galveston County. That is that the Galveston Daily News (now the Galveston County Daily News) is the oldest newspaper in Texas. So I thought I would provide you with a few facts that I managed to find. Oh, and I found an old photo of the same building. Interesting how it has changed. Probably all those hurricanes.

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• Galveston Daily News first published April 11, 1842


• Changed its name to Galveston County Daily News in 1993


• It is the oldest newspaper still in circulation in Texas


• It is the 18^th oldest newspaper still in circulation in the USA


• It is the 80^th oldest newspaper still in circulation in the world


• At the time of the first publication, Texas was an independent republic and not part of the United States


• The population of Galveston in 1842 was about 4,000 people


• In 1902 the newspaper was the first business in Texas to install a telephone


• The newspaper founded the Dallas Morning News in 1885

sources:
http://www.wan-press.org/article2823.html

http://galvestondailynews.com/history.lasso