Details for 100th Anniversary Brenham "Banner-Press"
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5477008306
Data
| Marker Number | 8306 |
| Atlas Number | 5477008306 |
| Marker Title | 100th Anniversary Brenham "Banner-Press" |
| Index Entry | Brenham Banner-Press |
| Address | 2430 Stringer St. |
| City | Brenham |
| County | Washington |
| UTM Zone | 14 |
| UTM Easting | 751831 |
| UTM Northing | 3337808 |
| Subject Codes | newspapers; writers; communities; Reconstruction; women, women's history topics; commemorations |
| Marker Year | 1966 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | Stringer Road, S side between Becker Drive and S. Chappell Hill Street |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | 18" x 28" |
| Marker Text | (1866-1966) Founded Jan. 1, 1866, as weekly "Southern Banner", by Dan McGary and John C. Rankin, Confederate veterans. For his independent policies, editor McGary was jailed that year; shop and nearby businesses burned. But paper survived; became a daily in 1876. "Banner" was merged with "Press" in 1912 by George Neu. Mrs. Ruby Robertson, on staff in 1912, in 1917 became first woman in Texas to edit a daily. Jim Byrd, production superintendent, has been on force since 1921. Ben F. Blanton, a newspaperman since 1939, became editor and publisher on Feb. 1, 1962. (1966) |