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It was the only ethnically Mexican colony founded during the Mexican period (1824-1835) that is located within the present-day U.S. state of Texas. Victoria was the center of the colony. Attracting new settlers to this area was part of an effort by the Mexican government to develop Coahuila y Tejas, which was sparsely populated.
Victoria is a city and the county seat of Victoria County, Texas, United States. The population was 65,534 as of the 2020 census. [4] The three counties of the Victoria Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 111,163 as of the 2000 census. Its elevation is 95 ft (29 m). Victoria is located 30 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico.
He was the patriarch of one of the prominent founding families of early Texas. De León and his wife Patricia de la Garza established De León's Colony, the only predominantly Mexican colony in Texas. They founded the town of Villa de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe Victoria Nombre de Jesús (now known as Victoria) on the Guadalupe River.
When Victoria, Texas was founded by empresario Martín De León and his wife Patricia de la Garza De León, they named it after Guadalupe Victoria, who had just become the first president of Mexico. [3] The town was platted by surveyor José María Jesús Carbajal [4] around a Market Square designed in 1839 by Edward Linn and known today as ...
Victoria County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 91,319. [1] Its county seat is also named Victoria. [2] Victoria County is included in the Victoria metropolitan statistical area, and comprises the entirety of the Victoria media market in Texas.
'A Town Called Victoria,' a PBS docuseries premiering Monday, follows the aftermath of a fire at a South Texas mosque and demonstrates how divisive politics have frayed American communities.
The legislature of the Republic of Texas authorized Leon County in 1846 from part of Robertson County, and named it in honor of Martín de León, the founder of Victoria, Texas. However, local tradition holds that it is named for a yellow wolf of the region commonly called the león ( Spanish for lion).
In the postbellum era, he worked for the railroads and steamships in Louisiana and Texas, and he co-founded the First National Bank of Victoria, the Victoria Loan Company, and the Victoria Building and Loan Company. [3] He died in 1912. [3] The house was designed by Danish-born architect Jules Leffland in the Queen Anne architectural style. [2]