See for yourself...
The mission was located right next to the campground. We walked over and went through the grounds and museum.
The mission was abandoned in the late 1700's and began to deteriorate. In the 1800's the locals were carrying away stone to build houses in the village of Goliad. In the 1930's the CCC began restoration on the mission and rebuilt most of it.
The town has a square surrounding the courthouse. Old historic buildings are lined up neatly on the sidewalks.
The courthouse was built in 1894 and had to be rebuilt in 1904 when a hurricane knocked down the clock tower and side towers.
The town of Goliad suffered extensive damage in 1902 from a tornado that killed over a hundred people.
The fort at La Bahia looked like a medieval castle.
It was the site of numerous hostilities between the Spanish, French, Mexicans and Anglo's over the years.
There were monuments here dedicated to the massacre that took place when the Mexicans executed over three hundred prisoners in 1836.
It was very interesting to imagine life here when the Spanish first started the missions to convert the native people to their way of life. The indigenous people were her for centuries before the Spanish came and had their own culture and tribes. With the evolution of the missions they were brought in and all lived together other than the tribes that remained hostile toward abandoning their old ways.
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