The Old Colony Memorial (est.1822) is a semiweekly newspaper published in Plymouth, Massachusetts. [1] Gannett owns the paper; [2] previous owners include the George W. Prescott Publishing Co. [3] and the Memorial Press Group.
The Old Colony Memorial (est.1822) is a semiweekly newspaper published in Plymouth, Massachusetts. [1] Gannett owns the paper; [2] previous owners include the George W. Prescott Publishing Co. [3] and the Memorial Press Group.
The Old Colony Memorial began in 1822. [4] Publishers have included George F. Andrews, Winslow W. Avery, Allen Danforth, James A. Danforth, Charles Carroll Doten, William T. Hollis, John Morisey, Thomas Prince, James Thurber. [5] [6] Among the editors: Joseph Francis Bittinger. [7]
In the 1830s, "connected with the printing office [was] a newspaper reading room where intelligence from various quarters [were] daily received, and [was] a pleasant resort for the reading gentlemen at their leisure hours. Under the same roof [was] a book-store and bindery, and a circulating library." [8] In the 19th century its main competitor was the Plymouth Rock newspaper. [9] In the 1880s the O.C. Memorial office stood on Court Street near Shirley Square, [10] and by the 1900s on Middle Street.
K. Prescott Low, whose family had published The Patriot Ledger for a century, purchased Memorial Press Group (MPG) in 1979 and incorporated it into the privately owned George W. Prescott Publishing Company. Thirty years later, however, in 1997, Low found that "mega-players competing with us" made family ownership of the Ledger and MPG uneconomic, and sought to sell them. [11]
A buyer quickly emerged: James F. Plugh, owner of The Enterprise , the Brockton daily newspaper that competed with the Ledger and several MPG papers. Plugh's Newspaper Media LLC, later renamed Enterprise NewsMedia, bought the Prescott Publishing for an estimated US$60 to US$70 million. [12]
Liberty Publishing purchased Enterprise NewsMedia in 2006 as part of a mammoth deal that also included Community Newspaper Company (CNC) – then owned by the Boston Herald – and a new name for the parent company, GateHouse Media. [13]
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