McHan served as the primary editors of the original newspaper, making E.A.
[1] Yearly subscriptions to the Messenger, six-columns and four-pages at the time, began at one dollar.
Napier continued to run the newspaper for 21 years before relinquishing ownership to his son in 1902.
[4] In December 2017, over 16,000 pages of the Walker County Messenger were added to the Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) website.
The funding for the digitization was provided by Georgia HomePLACE, a project of the Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) dedicated to encouraging public library participation in other DLG programs.