Here's to the land of the free and the home of the brave! Wishing everyone a happy and safe Independence Day! Enjoy every moment with friends, family, and fireworks. 🇺🇸🧨🌟
4th OF JULY BICENTENNIAL BLASTOFF
📅 July 04, 2024
📍Riverside Park
Featuring local food trucks, inflatables, Foamed Up, DLUX photobooth, vendor market, a fireworks show, and more!
Live music kicks off with Pat Matula and the Lone Star Playboys at 4:00pm followed by Rick Evans at 5:30pm, and our headliner Joel Nava at 7:30pm.
Stay to view the fireworks show at 9:00pm! Stick around after the fireworks show for Stephanie Ross & The Southern Drive Band at 9:30pm.
#FourthOfJuly #indepenceday #DiscoverVictoriaTX
THANK YOU, to everyone for coming out to celebrate! Here’s a look back at some of the festivities!
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- Victoria Day of Caring
- De Leon Plaza Expansion Ribbon Cutting and De Leon Statue Dedication
- Home of the Six Flags Market
- Live Music
- Ballet Folklorico
#ExploreVictoriaTX #victoriaturns200 #VictoriaTX
Get out and join the fun at the Victoria Community Center Fairgrounds! The petting zoo is a popular attraction at 78th Annual Victoria Livestock Show, and it’s easy to see why. Victoria Livestock Show #ExploreVictoriaTexas #VictoriaTexas
Check out the inflatable park at tonight’s Inaugural City of Victoria New Year's Eve Blastoff!
Come on down to Riverside Park tonight to help us ring in the New Year and Victoria’s 2024 Bicentennial!
Firework start at 9PM tonight. Oh, and did we mention the entire event is FREE! Happy New Year from the City of Victoria! #explorevictoriatx #victoriatx
👻Victoria Haunted History👻
Southern Pacific Depot
800 Block of East Santa Rosa
Many bodies departed from Victoria and arrived here at the old Southern Pacific Depot. During a heated argument at he train depot the afternoon of November 27m 1986, hack driver Babe Miller shot and killed Dave Halfin. Miller went to prison for two years but was given early release due to failing eyesight.
Those attuned to the paranormal would do well to visit this site and spend time here. Just across the tracks behind the old depot was Victoria's most notorious red light district.
What sort of ghosts do you imagine inhabit this place? Sadly the old Depot burned to the ground in the 1980's. Vagrants built a fire inside to keep warm and 100 years of history went up in smoke. Look for the historic marker just off the intersection.
#explorevictoriatx #victoriatexas #VTXhauntedhistory
Musica at the Dia de Muertos Festival at Casa De Luna VTX! Happening until 10pm
👻Victoria Haunted History👻 Hauschild Opera House
👻Victoria Haunted History👻
Hauschild Opera House
202 East Forrest
Built in 1893, the George H. Hauschild Opera House was the venue for countless performances and was the center of social life at the turn of the the last century. In recent years the building has housed a bookstore, an antiques mall and an event center, respectively.
Occupants have heard furniture being moved upstairs in what was once the balcony. Investigating the sounds, the tenants found the upstairs empty.
Does a phantom of the opera still sing nightly? Do the ghost of performances past still walk the boards of a stage that no longer exists?
#explorevictoriatx #victoriatexas #VTXhauntedhistory
👻Victoria Haunted History👻 1892 Victoria County Courthouse 101 N. Bridge
👻Victoria Haunted History👻
1892 Victoria County Courthouse
101 N. Bridge
The 1892 Victoria County Courthouse, designed by architect J. Riely Gordon, has its share of stories associated with mystery and death. Many criminals have learned their fate in the grand courtroom on the second floor. One has only to imagine the anguish and terror that seized a condemned man or woman at the instant the sentence was read. While the sheriff's office was located in the northeast corner of the first floor, more than one murdered soul was carried there from somewhere in town to await the undertaker. Far too many individuals have experienced mysteriously locked and unlocked doors, footsteps in the empty building, and voices whispering in the deserted hallways to ignore.
#explorevictoriatx #victoriatexas #VTXhauntedhistory
Opening reception for "Glimpses of the Past: Bessie Dean Parr’s Photographs of Turn of the Century, Collierville, Tennessee" at Five Points Museum of Contemporary Art. 🎞️
This exhibit contains over 200 images that were stored and forgotten in open wooden ammunition boxes in a barn for almost 100 years in Collierville, once a small town and now a suburb of Memphis. The photographer, Bessie Dean Parr was revolutionary in her use of photography, opening her studio to access by everyday citizens from the area regardless of age, gender, class or race.
Featuring cars from the collection of Willie Sanders.
LIVE at Sombrero FEST with Staudt Brothers! 🎶
Join us tonight at the Mother Cluckers Downtown Parking Lot Party! 🎉
FRIDAY, JULY 21st from 6pm-10pm
🎸 LIVE MUSIC by Glitch & Velvet Drive!
🌭 GanGa's Eats & Events
🍹Drinks provided by Stir Soda Shoppe, Rusty Hook Winery & ROOSTERS!
🛍️ Great vendors to shop set up outside as well as inside Mother Cluckers Downtown! They will be open until 10pm!
💓 Be sure to check out the neighboring boutiques that have also extended their hours!
#ExploreVictoria #VictoriaTexas #MotherCluckers
Live at The Green Cow Creamery-Victoria Ribbon Cutting…💚🐄🍦✂️
Location: 102 S. Main St.
Good times at one of Victoria’s Splash Pads could be just the thing you need to cool you down and get you through this Texas heat. ☀️🌊🩱🩳
There are currently two locations with FREE admission open 7 days a week from 9am - 9pm!
◽️Community Park Splash Pad
211 N Ben Wilson
◽️Lone Tree Creek Splash Pad
Location: 4009 E Airline
For more outdoor activity ideas visit ExploreVictoriaTexas.com
#SummerFun #SplashPads #ExploreVictoria #VictoriaTexas Victoria Parks and Recreation
Explore Victoria YOLO TX Feature
Come see for yourself what all the buzz 🐝 is about in Downtown Victoria!
Popular Texas travel show YOLO TX made a special trip to Victoria to check out of few of the fantastic dining 🍽, shopping 🛍, and nightlife 🍸 💃🕺 options downtown. Keep watching for visits to Peaches and Tortilla Mercantile and The Green Cow Creamery-Victoria, El Paso Tacos & Tequila - Victoria, Moonshine Drinkery, and Mother Cluckers Downtown! #explorevictoriatx #victoriatx #yolotx
IMPORTANT AIRING TIME UPDATE! Please see below…
Show of hands 🙋♀️🙋 for those excited for Victoria's premiere on YOLO TX this weekend!
Tune in to see Peaches and Tortilla Mercantile and The Green Cow Creamery-Victoria, El Paso Tacos & Tequila - Victoria, Moonshine Drinkery, and Mother Cluckers Downtown
The segment airs on KAVU-TV (ABC) this Saturday at 3:30am-4:00am, on KAVU-TV (ABC) this Sunday at 5:30am-6:00am, and on KVCT-TV (FOX 19) this Sunday at 3:30pm-4:00 pm! Set your DVRs today! #explorevictoriatx #victoriatx #yolotx
Explore Your Victoria Special Feature - Victoria Generals
🎶Take me out to the ball game, take me out with the crowd! 🎶 For this Explore Your Victoria Special Feature, join Joel Novosad of the Victoria Convention & Visitors Bureau for an exclusive look into the Victoria Generals ⚾️ baseball game experience. Come on out to root 👏👏 for the home team and have a lot of fun too as our Generals compete every summer for the Texas Collegiate League championship 🏆! #explorevictoriatx #victoriatx #exploreyourvictoria
Explore Your Victoria - Episode 7 - Grace Ranch
Presenting another episode of our new video series, Explore Your Victoria, with Joel Novosad of the Victoria Convention & Visitors Bureau! This month, Joel cowboys up 🤠 at Grace Ranch Victoria! Owners Bill and Sandy Sciba talk all about the cool activities at the ranch like trail rides 🐎, birthday parties 🎉, and camps ⛺. Joel jumps into the saddle and takes Blue for a spin around the arena! #explorevictoriatx #victoriatx #exploreyourvictoria
Mother Cluckers Downtown Parking Lot party! 🐓🎶
