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...
by Andy Barnes | Oct 5, 2023 | Victoria
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 spelling in this narrative is exactly as it appeared in the book. STORIES OF EX-SLAVES (Texas) ADELINE CUNNINGHAM, 1210...
by Andy Barnes | Oct 5, 2023 | Victoria
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 end of the American Civil War, and issued General Order No. 3. The order proclaimed all slaves held in Texas to be...
by Andy Barnes | Oct 5, 2023 | Victoria
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, Ethel Lee Tracy Park, Dr. Pattie Dodson Public Health Center. This is the first in a series of articles exploring the...
by Andy Barnes | Oct 5, 2023 | 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 streets, buildings and communities. If you have suggestions, please email reporter Tamara Diaz. He had about a one in...
by Andy Barnes | Oct 5, 2023 | Victoria
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 number, dedicating a new marker outside the county courthouse in Edna on Saturday. The marker will memorialize the 1954 U.S....
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