Phoenix Newspapers, Inc.

The Arizona Republic can trace its bloodline to the Valley's first newspaper, the Salt River Herald, which put out its first issue on January 26, 1878, when Phoenix was barely a decade old. The Herald became a daily, merged with the Arizona Republican in 1900, and took the name Arizona Republic in 1930. Its old rival, born as the Arizona Gazette in 1880, joined the same company that year. Publisher Eugene Pulliam ran the papers from 1946 to 1975 and made them a power in Arizona politics. The press grew up with the city.

What the plaque says

The Arizona Republic is directly descended from the Valley's first newspaper, the Salt River Herald, first published January 26, 1878. The weekly became a semi-weekly, then in 1879 a daily titled the Phoenix Herald. Merging with the morning Arizona Republican in 1900, it became the Arizona Republic in 1930., The Phoenix Gazette began as the Arizona Gazette, established October 28, 1880. In 1930 the Republic and the Gazette were consolidated. Eugene C. Pulliam was publisher from 1946 to 1975.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Phoenix — 0.3 mi
  The fifth-largest US city, built on the canals of a thousand-year-old one
• Heard Museum — 1.4 mi
  The Native Southwest, told in the first person
• Taliesin West — 17 mi
  Frank Lloyd Wright's desert masterwork, grown from the ground it stands on

More markers nearby

• Saint Mary's Basilica — steps away
• Maricopa County Courthouse — 0.3 mi
• First Latter-day Saint Chapel in Phoenix — 0.4 mi
• J. W. Walker/Central Arizona Light & Power Building — 0.4 mi