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De Leon (/ d ɪ ˈ l iː ɒ n / dih LEE-on) is a city located in Comanche County in the U.S. state of Texas.Its population was 2,258 in the 2020 census. [4] It is commonly associated with being named after the Spanish explorer Ponce de León, but the town is actually named for its location on the Leon River (de León in Spanish), which flows directly north and east of the community, and drains ...
Martín De León. Martín De León (1765–1833) was a rancher and wealthy Mexican empresario in Texas who was descended from Spanish aristocracy. He was the patriarch of one of the prominent founding families of early Texas. De León and his wife Patricia de la Garza established De León's Colony, the only predominantly Mexican colony in Texas.
De León's Colony. Coordinates: 28.6082°N 96.9891°W. 1873. Bird's Eye View of Victoria, Texas. De León's Colony was established in 1824 in the northern Coahuila y Tejas state of the First Mexican Republic, by empresario Martín De León. It was the only ethnically Mexican colony founded during the Mexican period (1824-1835) that is located ...
Comanche County, Texas. Texas. (2020) Comanche County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in Central Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 13,594. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The county seat is Comanche. [ 3 ] The county was founded in 1856 and is named for the Comanche Native American tribe.
v. t. e. The French colonization of Texas started when Robert Cavelier de La Salle intended to found the colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River, but inaccurate maps and navigational errors caused his ships to anchor instead 400 miles (640 km) to the west, off the coast of Texas. The colony survived until 1688.
De Leon Free Press: De Leon: 1890 Thursday 978 Wise County Messenger: Decatur: 1880 Wednesday / Friday 4,130 Denton Record-Chronicle: Denton: Denton Media Company 1903 Daily eEdition / print Saturday 3,780 Denver City Press: Denver City: 1939 Thursday 997 Focus Daily News: DeSoto: Focus Newspapers of DFW 1987 Daily (ex Mon Sat) 14,996 The ...
Felipe de la Garza. Patricia de la Garza De León (1775–1849) was the matriarch of one of the prominent founding families of early Texas. Doña Patricia raised ten children, some of whom helped change the course of history. [1] At age 49, she uprooted her life in 1824 to help her husband Martín De León establish the predominantly Mexican De ...
Fernando De León. Fernando De León (1798–1853) was a co-founder of Victoria, Texas, and the first commissioner and colonization manager of De León's Colony. He fought against Antonio López de Santa Anna. De León was an aide-de-camp to provisional Texas governor James W. Robinson. In the war's confusion about Mexican loyalties, De León ...