Goliad
May 28, 2020
2 minutes
By Clayton Maxwell
ack before there was Texas or Mexico, there was Goliad. In 1749, Spanish missionaries moved Mission Espíritu Santo and its fort from the banks of the Guadalupe River near present-day Victoria to a hill overlooking the San Antonio River. A village named La Bahía, Spanish for “the bay,” grew around the mission compound and became an essential hub of Spanish life. In 1829, Mexican authorities renamed the town
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