Flag of Victoria County

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Stock #: 306236
Type: Postcard
Era: Linen
City: Victoria County
State: Texas (TX)
Publisher: Tichnor Bros Inc.
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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The flag of Victoria County was first unfurled October 28, 1936 on the occasion of Victoria County's Texas Centennial celebration and commemoration of the 112th anniversary of the founding of Victoria in 1824 by martin de Leon. The flag was designed by postmaster Leopold Morris and painted by Sister M. Fidelia of Nazareth Convent. It portrays Alvar de Nunez de Vaca, Spanish explorer, the first white traveler in Texas (1528), who lived among the Indians in the vicinity of Texas (1528), who lived among the Indians in the vicinity of Victoria; Robert Cavalier de la Salle, French explorer, whose colony, founded 1685 in Victoria County, was the first white settlement in Texas, and De Leon's cattle brand, said to have been the brand of the royal family of Spain and the oldest in Texas in point of origin, the "E" and "J" connected standing for Espiritus de Jesus" or the Spirit of Jesus

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