Near Offices of "Rains County Leader"

The paper answered to several names before settling on one. The Handbook says H. W. Martin's Argus of 1887 became the Record and later the Rains County Leader, though its own Emory entry already lists a weekly called the Rains County Record in 1885, a puzzle the sources do not resolve. Rivals followed: the Emory Star in 1890, the Rains County Sentinel in 1894 and the Point Enterprise in 1913. Scanned issues, including volume 83 from June 1970, can be read in the University of North Texas Portal to Texas History.

What the plaque says

Near Offices of "Rains County Leader" Only newspaper in county. Founded 1887 by H. W. Martin as "The Argus." By 1900 was renamed "Leader." Sold 1904 to Tom W. Hill, Sr., editor until 1937. Earl Hill, Sr., was editor 1937-1960; Earl Hill, Jr., 1960-1962; since 1962 publishers have been Nell Hill Butcher and Kathleen Hill Becknell. (1968)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Audie Murphy / American Cotton Museum — 26 mi
  A Greenville museum of Hunt County's military heroes, including Audie Murphy, and of cotton, which keeps the engine of what it says was the world's largest inland cotton compress.

More markers nearby

• Rains County — steps away
• Emory United Methodist Church — steps away
• Emory Rains — 0.3 mi
• Smyrna Union Church — 3.7 mi