The Jefferson "Jimplecute"

A 1936 county history calls the Jimplecute the only one of twenty-three newspapers published in Jefferson at one time or another to endure. It says Ward Taylor founded the paper in 1865 and that after his death in 1894 his son and daughter, M. I. Taylor, known as Miss Birdie, ran it together until 1915. She then took full control and published it until it was sold in 1926, keeping the job printing department for herself. The Handbook of Texas calls it the town's longest-running and most influential newspaper and dates it to 1848.

What the plaque says

The Jefferson "Jimplecute" Initials of words "Join Industry, Manufacturing, Planting, Labor, Energy, Capital (in) Unity Together Everlasting" headed 1848 paper of E.C. Beazley. Ward Taylor (1832-1894) founded present "Jimplecute," published 1865-1926 by his family. Later owners: Mrs. H. P. Winsborough, Tom Foster, Arthur M. Bower, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hicks, Mr. and Mrs. Dwaine Dennis. (1973)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Excelsior House Hotel — steps away
  A brick-and-timber hotel at 211 West Austin that began as a river captain's boarding house in 1858 and was revived by a garden club in 1959, and still takes guests with rosewood furniture.
• Jefferson Historical Museum — steps away
  A four-floor museum in Jefferson's 1888-90 federal post office and courthouse, with rooms for African-American history, Jewish heritage, the Caddo and Diamond Bessie, bought by the historical society in 1965 for $8,100.
• Caddo Lake State Park — 11 mi
  A Civilian Conservation Corps park on the Texas shore of Caddo Lake, where the Caddo told of a lake made by wind-driven water and visitors now paddle Big Cypress Bayou past moss-hung bald cypress.
• Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge — 12 mi
  Wetlands and woods on part of a former ammunition plant, now a refuge for wood ducks, prothonotary warblers and alligator snapping turtles, with four easy trails and a free visitor center on a Ramsar lake.

More markers nearby

• Texas Statesman Charles Allen Culberson — steps away
• First National Bank of Jefferson — steps away
• Vernon Dalhart — steps away
• Kahn Saloon — steps away