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 ...
Empresario Martín De León founded the city of Victoria and played a key role in settling the Texas Coastal Bend. De León was born in 1765 to an aristocratic family in Burgos, Mexico. After serving as ...
Plácido Benavides is called the “Paul Revere of Texas” for his role in the Texas Revolution. Born in 1810 in Mexico, Benavides moved to Texas in 1828. He found work in Victoria with the family of ...
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