It is operated by South Georgia Media Group, a division of Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.[2] In 1879, the Americus Recorder began as a tri-weekly publication owned by Merrel Callaway.

The Americus Recorder was a competitor of the Sumter Republican newspaper at this time.

While both were successful, the town could not afford to have both the Times and the Recorder, so they combined both of the newspaper titles in 1891 when Captain Bascom Myrick made the name the Americus Times Recorder.

[4] His wife, Marie Louise Scudder Myrick, is said to be the first woman "in the South" to own and edit a newspaper.

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