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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]
O. Henry House refers to two homes which the author, William Sydney Porter, better known as O. Henry lived. Both of these homes are located in Texas. In Austin, Texas. William Sidney Porter House; In San Antonio, Texas. O. Henry House Museum (San Antonio)
Sidney is an unincorporated community in Comanche County, Texas, United States. [1] According to the Handbook of Texas , [ citation needed ] the community had a population of 196 in 2000. History
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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.
Ann's last curatorial endeavor was the mounting of the major museum show Mel Chin: Points of View held in conjunction with his large-scale public installation Wake in downtown Victoria (2021-2022). [ 33 ]