​100th Anniversary
Brenham Banner-Press 
​​(1886 - 1966)

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Marker No: 8306

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 30.145794, -96.385559

Location: ​2000 Stringer Road (accessed off US 290 W. bound feeder road in the 500 block), Brenham

Marker Text: ​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 Meu. 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)