The first issue of The Hawkesbury Herald was published on 24 April 1902 by William Henry Pinkstone and Frederick William Collison.[1] Pinkstone and Collison published the newspaper until 1940.[1] The newspaper continued to be published after 1940 until 1945 when it was merged into the Windsor and Richmond Gazette.[1] The Windsor and Richmond Gazette is now published as the Hawkesbury Gazette.[2][3] The newspaper was circulated in townships along the Hawkesbury River including Windsor, Richmond, Castlereagh and Marsden Park.[1]