Texas Historical Marker

Don Martin De Leon

Victoria · Victoria County · placed 1936

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Victoria County, Texas

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Founder of Victoria. Empresario of colonial grant from Mexico in 1824. Spanish cavalier, Indian fighter.

First cattle baron of Texas. Born in Burgos, Tamaulipas, Mexico in 1765. Died in Victoria in 1833.

RIP 1936

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