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Victoria’s Placido Benavides taught Rangers ‘to ride like a Mexican and fight like the Devil’

Victoria’s Placido Benavides taught Rangers ‘to ride like a Mexican and fight like the Devil’

by Andy Barnes | Jan 24, 2024 | 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 markers scattered about the Crossroads. Along with their four sons, Martin and Patricia De Leon had six daughters. With the...
Victoria’s Street of Ten Friends included the name of a latter-day Texas bogeyman

Victoria’s Street of Ten Friends included the name of a latter-day Texas bogeyman

by Andy Barnes | Jan 24, 2024 | 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 markers scattered about the Crossroads. The Street of Ten Friends, La Calle de los Diez Amigos, now Main Street, was...
De Leon brothers suffered cruel fate after Texas independence

De Leon brothers suffered cruel fate after Texas independence

by Andy Barnes | Jan 24, 2024 | The De Leons

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 markers scattered about the Crossroads. Ten years after he founded Victoria, on July 18, 1834, Martin De Leon died of...
Big bang theory: It’s unclear when Victoria had its first fireworks display

Big bang theory: It’s unclear when Victoria had its first fireworks display

by Andy Barnes | Jan 24, 2024 | The De Leons

Texas joined the union of the United States 70 years after the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Victorians were Spaniards, Mexicans and Texians before they became Americans with the rest of Texas in 1846. Just 15...
Tragic Texas Revolution figure’s fate coincided with De Leon family’s post-war troubles

Tragic Texas Revolution figure’s fate coincided with De Leon family’s post-war troubles

by Andy Barnes | Jan 24, 2024 | The De Leons

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 markers scattered about the Crossroads. Texas wasn’t always so big. As a matter of fact, things in Texas were slight at one...
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