Arkansas Gazette

The Arkansas Gazette was established by New York newspaperman William E. Woodruff in 1819. Woodruff first published the paper in Arkansas Post before moving his press up the Arkansas River to Little Rock in December 1821. Woodruff remained the official printer of the state government until 1833, when the Arkansas Advocate took over the contract.

The Gazette installed the first typesetting machine in Arkansas in 1894.

The Gazette was the oldest continuously published newspaper in the country until its sale to the Arkansas Democrat on October 18, 1991.

References

• Frederick William Allsopp, History of the Arkansas Press for a Hundred Years and More (Parke-Harper Publishing, 1922), 19, 23.
• Ira Don Richards, Story of a Rivertown: Little Rock in the Nineteenth Century (1969), 12.
• Paulette Walker and Alan Paulson, Historic Pulaski County: Arkansas (Arcadia Publishing, 1999), 8.