Transcribed from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar.

Victoria, a little town in Ellis county, is located in Victoria township on the Union Pacific R. R., 10 miles east of Hays, the county seat. It has 2 banks, 2 mills, a grain elevator, a number of retail establishments, telegraph office, and a money order postoffice. The population is about 200. It is in the midst of a Russian settlement, one of the largest Catholic monasteries in the state is located here, and a fine Catholic church has just been built at a cost of $80,000. It is in the midst of a large agricultural district for which it is the receiving and shipping point.

Page 845 from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed July 2002 by Carolyn Ward.