Victoria History
Marking History: Opera house was ‘showplace of the day for Victoria’
Editor’s note: This is another in an ongoing series of articles we call “Marking History” looking at the stories behind the hundreds of historic...
John Joseph Linn, known as Juan Linn, was city’s first mayor
Editor’s note: This is another in an ongoing series of articles we call “Marking History” looking at the stories behind the hundreds of historic...
Marking History: Victoria’s mysterious O.E.H. Mundt turned hotel into school
Editor’s note: This is another in an ongoing series of articles we call “Marking History” looking at the stories behind the hundreds of historic...
Marking History: Evergreen Cemetery holds what remains of Victoria’s historic residents
Editor’s note: This is another in an ongoing series of articles we call “Marking History” looking at the stories behind the hundreds of historic...
History found below ground at Memorial Square
Editor’s note: This is another in an ongoing series of articles we call “Marking History” looking at the stories behind the hundreds of historic...
Victoria’s Placido Benavides taught Rangers ‘to ride like a Mexican and fight like the Devil’
Editor’s note: This is another in an ongoing series of articles we call “Marking History” looking at the stories behind the hundreds of historic...
Victoria’s Street of Ten Friends included the name of a latter-day Texas bogeyman
Editor’s note: This is another in an ongoing series of articles we call “Marking History” looking at the stories behind the hundreds of historic...
In a slave’s words …
Tamara Diaz | tdiaz@vicad.com. Jun 17, 2022 Updated Jul 23, 2023 This is from the two-volume book, “Slave Narratives of Texas.” The language and...
Freedom came last to Texas: Juneteenth ended slavery in the Crossroads
Tamara Diaz | tdiaz@vicad.com. Jun 19, 2022 Updated Jul 23, 2023 Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston on June 19, 1865, after the...
Victoria’s doctor: Dr. Pattie Dodson applied tenacious spirit to helping others
Tamara Diaz | tdiaz@vicad.com. Aug 17, 2022 Editor’s note: What’s in a name? Zac Lentz Parkway, the Leo J. Welder Center for the Performing Arts,...
From Bombs to Banks: Leo J. Welder returned from war to serve Victoria
Tamara Diaz | tdiaz@vicad.com. Aug 25, 2022 Editor’s note: This is one in an occasional series about the people behind the names of Crossroads...
Landmark civil rights case to get a Texas historical marker in Edna
Tamara Diaz | tdiaz@vicad.com. Sep 14, 2022 Over 16,000 historical markers dot the Texas landscape. Jackson County will soon add one to that...
From muddy ruts to pavement: Zac Lentz influenced the laying of better roads around Victoria
Tamara Diaz | tdiaz@vicad.com. Oct 4, 2022 Zac Lentz hobnobbed with former Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy, among others. He...
‘To bring their beauty out’: Woman cleans dumped trash at historic Black cemetery
Tamara Diaz | tdiaz@vicad.com. Feb 10, 2023 YOAKUM — Vanita Cheeves cared for people in emergency health crises for 30 years as a nurse. Now, she...
Hallettsville Knights of Columbus celebrate 100 years of service
Tamara Diaz | tdiaz@vicad.com. Mar 2, 2023 One hundred years ago, in 1923, John L. Smolik joined the Knights of Columbus in Hallettsville. He was...
Tornado of 1902 highlights segregated cemeteries, death, destruction and man with big feet
By Tamara Diaz | Special to the Advocate. Jun 16, 2023 Editor’s note: This is another in an ongoing series of articles we call “Marking History”...
Hiller family land makes up much of Riverside Park. Here’s their story
Editor’s note: This is another in an ongoing series of articles we call “Marking History” looking at the stories behind the hundreds of historic...
Big bang theory: It’s unclear when Victoria had its first fireworks display
By Tamara Diaz Special to the Advocate. Jul 3, 2023 Texas joined the union of the United States 70 years after the Second Continental Congress...
Marking History: Regan House left for Victoria after hurricane of 1886
Tamara Diaz | Special to the Advocate. Jul 14, 2023 Editor’s notes: This is another in an ongoing series of articles we call “Marking History”...
Marking History: In Victoria County the ‘royal road’ is hidden
Tamara Diaz | Special to the Advocate. Jul 21, 2023 Editor’s notes: This is another in an ongoing series of articles we call “Marking History”...
Marking History: Lorenzo Dow Heaton missed oil boom, but became pharmacist, fire chief
By Tamara Diaz | Special to the Advocate. Aug 4, 2023 Editor’s note: This is another in an ongoing series of articles we call “Marking History”...
Marking History: Confederate soldiers trained just off Zac Lentz Parkway
Tamara Diaz/Special to the Advocate Editor’s note: This is another in an ongoing series of articles we call “Marking History” looking at the stories...
Marking History: Newspaper’s leader, historian had many a scandal in Victoria
By Tamara Diaz | Special to the Advocate. Aug 18, 2023 Editor’s note: This is another in an ongoing series of articles we call “Marking History”...
Marking History: Nursery horticulturist Onderdonk credited with state’s rich fruit harvest
By Tamara Diaz | Special to the Advocate. Aug 25, 2023 Updated Aug 25, 2023 Editor’s note: This is another in an ongoing series of articles we...
Marking History: Victoria’s history summed up in three short sentences
Tamara Diaz | Special to the Advocate. Jun 30, 2023 Editor’s note: This is another in an ongoing series of articles we call “Marking History”...
Marking History: A river runs through it — Guadalupe helped shape where Victoria is
Tamara Diaz | Special to the Advocate. |. Jul 7, 2023 Editor’s note: This is another in an ongoing series of articles we call “Marking History”...