Martin De Leon applied for several land grants before he was granted one to colonize in South Texas. It was April 1824. At the time, Mexican officials had only given permits to Anglo empresarios. De ...

Alonzo de León y Pérez, "El Mozo," is an iconic Spanish legend that often does not get the credit he deserves. He was a soldier, colonial administrator and explorer from New Spain, remembered for ...

Editor’s note: This is another in an ongoing series of articles we call “Marking History” looking at the stories behind the hundreds of historic markers scattered about the Crossroads. Ten years after ...

Plácido Benavides is called the “Paul Revere of Texas” for his role in the Texas Revolution. Born in 1810 in Mexico, Benavides moved to Texas in 1828. He found work in Victoria with the family of ...