Historical Marker
Don Martin De Leon
Historical marker location:
Victoria, Texas
( Evergreen Cemetery, W. Red River & N. Vine Sts. (De Leon Pathway, Lot 1, Section 1))
Marker installed: 1936
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.