A new year...

With this week's issue the Echo Pilot newspaper begins its 159th year of weekly publication in Greencastle, started in 1849 by Mormon printer Ebenezer Robinson as the "Conococheague Herald."

In 1853 the name was changed to "Weekly Intelligencer"; by 1855 it was the "Franklin Gazette" and in 1857, the paper became "The Franklin Ledger." By the late 1800s, the name was "The Pilot" and then combined forces with the "Valley Echo." In 1891 the name was combined to the present day "Echo-Pilot" (with the hyphen since removed), which, in the years that followed, purchased the "Greencastle Press," a rival weekly newspaper also printed in Greencastle, from Col. B. F. Winger.