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The focus of the permanent displays in the Sidney Museum is the human history of Sidney and the North Saanich Peninsula. [3] This includes the First Nations groups of the Peninsula, the settler families of the area, economic ventures and development throughout the past century, the beginnings of the railway and transportation systems in the area, the development of the Town of Sidney, the ...
Location of Victoria County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Victoria County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Victoria County, Texas. There are one district and 114 individual properties listed on the ...
The University of Houston–Victoria was founded in 1971 and remains there today. In 2017, the Victoria Islamic Center mosque was destroyed by an arson attack. [10] [11] A 25-year-old Victoria man was convicted of the crime and sentenced to prison. [12] [13] A documentary film, A Town Called Victoria, was produced about the incident. [14] [15] [16]
The William Sydney Porter House or O. Henry House is a historic structure in Downtown Austin, Texas. William Sydney Porter, better known as the author O. Henry, lived there between 1893 and 1895. The Porter house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 18, 1973. The house is known today as the O. Henry Museum.
A native of Athens in east Texas, Richardson attended Baylor University and Simmons College from 1910 to 1912. [2] With borrowed money, he and a business partner, Clint Murchison Sr., amassed $1 million in the oil business in 1919–1920, but then watched their fortunes wane with the oil market, until business again boomed in 1933.
Richard E. Flanagan (October 31, 1927 – September 27, 1997) was a National Football League (NFL) center who played eight seasons. Flanagan played high school football for Sidney High School and college football for Ohio State University. [1] He was selected by the Chicago Bears in the 10th round of the 1948 NFL draft. [2]
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Robert Sidney Martin (born 1949) is an American librarian, archivist, administrator, and educator. He is Professor Emeritus, School of Library and Information Studies, Texas Woman’s University, where he was the Lillian M. Bradshaw Endowed Chair until his retirement in 2008. Robert S. Martin as Director of the Institute of Museum and Library ...