Killeen Herald

After 1950 the Herald changed hands in a way that tied it to Temple. James C. Tanner, in his early twenties, became publisher and editor that year, and on January 5, 1953, the paper turned from a twice-weekly into a five-day afternoon daily. The same year Frank W. Mayborn, who owned the Temple Daily Telegram, bought it. A weekly summary called the Messenger kept readers who would not switch. A Sunday edition arrived in 1969 and seven-day publishing, with morning delivery, in 1982. After Mayborn's death in 1987 his widow, Sue Mayborn, ran the paper.

What the plaque says

Killeen Herald W.E. Bennett began publishing the Killeen Herald in June 1890, eight years after the town of Killeen was founded. Later owners of the newspaper included W.T. Carter, an active civic leader who served as publisher and editor from 1907 to 1950. Begun as a weekly publication, the Herald has been a daily paper since 1953. From the earliest days of Killeen, the Herald has grown with the town and has chronicled the area's dynamic progress. It is now the oldest privately owned and continuously operated business enterprise in the city of Killeen. (1990)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mother Neff State Park — 23 mi
  A Leon River park that grew from six acres Isabella Neff left the state in her 1921 will, where Civilian Conservation Corps Company 817 built a stone tower, a pavilion and roads in the 1930s.
• Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum — 23 mi
  The Santa Fe depot of 1911 in a railroad town that began in 1880 as a construction camp, now a museum with locomotives and cars parked beside the active rail yard.
• Hancock Springs Park — 26 mi
  Lampasas's city park on Sulphur Creek, with a spring-fed swimming pool that holds about 69 degrees all year, the walls of the old bathhouse and a golf course.

More markers nearby

• Immanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery — 1.0 mi
• City of Killeen — 1.3 mi
• Oveta Culp Hobby and the Women's Army Corps — 1.4 mi
• Santa Fe Depot — 1.4 mi