History of the County’s Name: Mexican empresario Martin De León colonized the area known as Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Jesús Victoria in 1824. Later, Victoria County would become one of the original 23 counties established by the First Congress of the Republic of Texas in 1836. It was named in honor of Guadalupe Victoria, the first Mexican president

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