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Flag of Victoria County, Texas
VICTORIA COUNTY
LA SALLE'S
BRAND
COLONY
de LEON'S
ACA
CABEZA de VAC
MARTIN
1528
FIRST
WHITE
1807
OLDEST IN TEXAS
1685
FIRST WHITE S
TRAVELER
99
"Where The History of Texas Began
(c) Copyright 1947 by Leopold Morris
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FLAG OF VICTORIA COUNTY, TEXAS
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
Victoria; Robert Cavalier de La Salle, French explorer, whose
colony, founded in 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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