The newspaper was founded in 1889, by Henry Clay Ragland, a veteran of the Confederate army, as a weekly paper.
In 1981 it adopted an unusual schedule of publishing Tuesday-Friday afternoons and Sunday mornings.
In September 2018, under the ownership of HD Media, the paper was reduced to a tri-weekly schedule of publishing Sunday, Wednesday and Friday mornings.
HD Media also adopted the same weekly schedule for the Banner's sister paper, the Williamson Daily News.
[3] The Logan Banner appeared in several scenes of the 2012 hit TV miniseries titled Hatfields & McCoys starring Kevin Costner.