Founded in 1850 by George Robinson (1820–1888),
The Item reportedly is the second oldest continuously published newspaper in
Texas. It has been headquartered across from the old Huntsville post office, on the banks of Town Creek, since the late 1960s. The Woodall family sold the paper to Harte Hanks in the 1960s. Harte Hanks sold the paper to Media News Group in the early 1980s, which sold it to The Thomson Corporation in the late 1980s.
The Thomson Corporation sold
The Huntsville Item, along with 11 other papers, to the American Publishing Company (later
Hollinger International) in 1995. Hollinger sold off most of its small papers in 1999, and
The Huntsville Item went to
Community Newspaper Holdings. == References ==