Donna News - Donna, Texas
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N 26° 10.233 W 098° 03.332
14R E 594386 N 2894914
Building that housed the towns newspapers from 1910 till the 1960's when the last one went out of business.
Waymark Code: WM3EHD
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 03/23/2008
Views: 78
Donna was founded in 1904, and six years later, in 1910, Garland Buck built a two-story brick building for the towns first newspaper, the Donna Developer. Over the ensuing years the paper changed hands several times and was subsequently known as the Donna Dispatch, the Donna News and the Donna News-Advocate.
Though the exact year is not known, it finally ceased publication sometime during the 1960s. In 1969, the Donna Chamber of Commerce bought the building, saving it for a time. Damaged by fire in 1988, it was restored and used as part of the local history museum. Currently (2008) the building is vacant. Though the building may have risen from the ashes so to speak, no newspaper has been published in Donna since the 60's.
Area Served: Donna, Texas
What is (later, was) its physical address?:
127 S 8th St
Donna, Texas United States
78537
Does it now just provide an internet read?: No
Did you ever buy or subscribe to this paper?: No.
Please provide a link referring to the newspaper's demise.: Not listed
Internet address: Not listed
If applicable, when was this publication's last edition?: Not listed
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