Panhandle Herald

The Herald's founder was an Englishman and former Episcopal missionary who gave up a Houston pastorate, having decided he could reach a wider audience as an editor than as a preacher. Henry Harold Brookes built the paper's first wooden press himself and at first lived and worked out of a tent in Panhandle; the first edition is dated July 22, 1887. Later proprietors included Lee Satterwhite, afterward speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, and John L. Nunn, a utilities magnate. The Texas House marked the paper's 125th anniversary in 2013.

What the plaque says

Panhandle Herald Published since 1887. Oldest newspaper in the Texas Panhandle, second oldest business in the area. Founded by H.H. Brookes. Principal owner 1926-58, David M. Warren, oil man, banker, a Regent of the University of Texas. Don and Norene Peoples owners at 75th Anniversary. In Memoriam - David M. Warren (1894-1958) by Mrs. David M. Warren, David M. Warren, Jr., Randolph J. Warren. (1965)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Carson County Square House Museum — steps away
  The 1880s ranch cottage that is the oldest house in the town of Panhandle, at the heart of a twenty-one-building museum of the plains from mammoth hunters to the oil boom.
• Gem Theatre — 16 mi
  Claude's small-town movie house of 1915, restored by the Armstrong County Museum and remembered for the scene in Hud where Homer and Lonnie Bannon sing along to Clementine.
• Hutchinson County Museum — 23 mi
  Borger's museum on the three-mile Main Street of a 1926 oil boom town that drew 45,000 people in ninety days and was put under martial law in 1929.
• Lake Meredith National Recreation Area — 24 mi
  A Canadian River reservoir in 200-foot breaks, built to water the Panhandle's cities, that fell to a record 26 feet deep in 2013 and still rises and falls with the drought.

More markers nearby

• Callaghan Memorial Library — steps away
• Carson County — steps away
• Texas Panhandle Pioneers - John F. Weatherlys Family — steps away
• Conway Community Church — steps away