Citrus County Chronicle

Citrus County Chronicle

Front page of the September 9, 2021, issue
Type	Newspaper
Owner(s)	Paxton Media Group
Founder(s)	Albert M. Williamson
Founded	1889
Headquarters	1624 N. Meadowcrest Blvd. Crystal River, FL 34429
OCLC number	15802799
Website	chronicleonline.com

Citrus County Chronicle is a newspaper serving Citrus County, Florida and the surrounding areas. It was based in the county seat of Inverness, and has since moved its headquarters to Crystal River. ^{[1] [2]}

History

The paper was begun in 1889 by Albert M. Williamson as a business encyclical. Walter Warnock, county clerk, took over the publication in the 1890s and added news reporting. The paper has changed hands numerous times throughout the enduing years:

• 1914 - George Butler becomes editor and owner, transferred later that year to Albert Butler
• 1929 - Joseph Wilson of Clearwater, Florida buys the paper, and becomes an agrarian populist editor
• 1935 - acquired by the Scofield Publishing Company
• 1946 - purchased by a succession of Bradenton owners: N.A. Perry and J.R. Hough
• 1947 - bought by Col. George Johnson
• 1948 - sold to the Chicago Sun-Times editor Paul Ramsey
• 1959 - sold to the Bennett Hahn Company, and quickly thereafter to Frances and Carl Turner of Wisconsin
• 1962 - sold to a St. Petersburg group led by Herman Goldner
• 1980 - merged with Landmark Community Newspapers
• 2021 - sold to Paxton Media Group, its current owner

References

1. https://www.loc.gov/item/sn87070035/ LOC
2. https://www.chronicleonline.com/ CO