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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Victoria, Texas
Victoria is the county seat for Victoria County
Victoria is in Victoria County
Victoria County(115) ► ADJACENT TO VICTORIA COUNTY Calhoun County(85) ► DeWitt County(72) ► Goliad County(74) ► Jackson County(14) ► Lavaca County(103) ► Refugio County(31) ►
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Transportation, military and supply center in the Civil War. On one branch of the Cotton Road, which moved crop to Mexico for exchange on foreign markets for vital guns, ammunition, medicines and other goods. The 1861 vote favored secession 313 to . . . — — Map (db m141870) HM
In the 1880s, English-born William Wheeler (1861-1931) came to Texas with the C.E. Gray Construction Co. to install water works for Palestine, Tyler, Taylor, Columbus, and Victoria. He arrived in Victoria in June 1884 with construction engineer J.T. . . . — — Map (db m192511) HM
Born in Virginia in 1821, Viola Case moved in 1848 to Victoria, where she taught at the Victoria Female Academy founded by her husband, the Rev. John R. Shive. She continued the school after his death in 1853 and after the death of her second . . . — — Map (db m211975) HM
This fellowship was organized shortly after the Civil War to serve the newly freed slaves of the Victoria area. Originally a Methodist Episcopal Church, it began in 1871 when church trustees George Ware, Thads Phillips, Isaac Smith, Alexander Bonds, . . . — — Map (db m192439) HM
Served in Co. D, Texas Rangers (1927-1933), under Captains W.W. Sterling, Will Wright, and Albert Mace. Hazardous duties included patrolling the Rio Grande for smugglers, protecting a prisoner from a Sherman lynch mob, dipping cattle for tick fever . . . — — Map (db m192587) HM
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