# Elgin Courier
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{{Short description|Newspaper in Elgin, Texas}}
{{Infobox Newspaper
| name = The Elgin Courier
| image = CourierBuildingPic.jpg
| image_size = 250px
| caption = The Elgin Courier building
| type = [Weekly newspaper](/source/Weekly_newspaper)
| format = [Broadsheet](/source/Broadsheet)
| founded = 1890
| ceased_publication =
| price =
| owners = Granite Publications, Inc.
| publisher = Marie Ott [{{citation |url=http://www.elgincourier.com/site/about/ |work=elgincourier.com |title=About us |accessdate=2013-09-02 }}]
| editor = Julianne Hodges
| circulation = 1,743
| circulation_date = 2023
| circulation_ref = [{{Cite web |title=2023 Texas Newspaper Directory |url=https://publisher.etype.services/The-Texas-Newspaper-Directory/e-paper-regular-edition/EEA520B114811333 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230503044946/https://publisher.etype.services/The-Texas-Newspaper-Directory/e-paper-regular-edition/EEA520B114811333 |archive-date=2023-05-03 |access-date=2023-05-03 |website=Texas Press Association}}]
| headquarters =
| website = [http://www.elgincourier.com elgincourier.com]
}}
The '''''Elgin Courier''''' is a newspaper in [Elgin, Texas](/source/Elgin%2C_Texas), United States.
== History ==
Founded by Miles Hill, the paper has been published on a weekly basis since 1890.[{{citation|author1=Bill Bradfield|author2=William H. Bradfield|author3=Clare Bradfield|title=Muleshoe & More: The Remarkable Stories Behind the Naming of Texas Towns|date=1 November 1998|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-88415-865-3|page=63}}] Though it was not the first paper in Elgin –prior to 1890. there was ''The Meteor'', ''The Times'', and others[{{citation|author1=Sydna Davis Arbuckle|author2=Judy Davis|title=Elgin|date=26 November 2012|publisher=[Arcadia Publishing](/source/Arcadia_Publishing)|isbn=978-0-7385-9519-1}}] – it has long been the [paper of record](/source/paper_of_record) for not just Elgin, but much of the surrounding communities of [McDade](/source/McDade%2C_Texas), [Coupland](/source/Coupland%2C_Texas), and other areas in Bastrop County, along with ''[The Bastrop Advertiser](/source/The_Bastrop_Advertiser)'' and media from the larger city of [Austin](/source/Austin%2C_Texas).[{{citation|author=David Wharton|title=The Soul of a Small Texas Town: The Photographs, Memories, and History from Mcdade, Texas|date=1 July 2000|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=978-0-8061-3178-8}}]
The paper was purchased by Julian O. Smith in 1901,[{{citation|author1=Dermot H. Hardy|author2=Ingham S. Roberts|title=Historical Review of South-east Texas and the Founders, Leaders and Representative Men of Its Commerce, Industry and Civic Affairs|year=1910|publisher=Brookhaven Press|page=797}}] who published it until 1948, and saw it through a period of major growth. The ''Courier'' is owned by Blackland Publications, which also owns local Texas papers such as the ''Hill Country News'', ''[Taylor Press](/source/Taylor_Press)'', and others.