The Most Sacred, Historical Town In Texas - What I Saw In GOLIAD
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- I visited the historic town of Goliad, Texas.
This small city is home to many historical events:
The Battle Of Goliad (1835)
The Goliad Massacre (1836)
The first signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence at the Loreto Chapel
The birthplace of legendary Mexican General Ignacio Zaragoza, whose successful battle against a far larger French Army is now remembered as Cinco de Mayo.
The town is named after a Mexican priest, Father Hidalgo. Hidalgo ignited Mexico's War of Independence from Spain and is Mexico's equivalent to George Washington. The name Goliad is an anagram of Hidalgo.
The Angel Of Goliad, a young Mexican woman, was responsible for saving many Texian lives at Goliad.
The Presidio la Bahia was built in 1749 by the Spanish Army and is the site of the second Texas Revolutionary Battle.
The notorious "Hanging Tree" still stands in the city's main square, next to the beautiful Goliad County Courthouse, built in 1894.
The gravesite of Colonel James Fannin and his men, massacred at Goliad, lies a few feet away from the Presidio.
For a hint at what the next video will be, follow me on Instagram: / joeysroadtrip
Travel Vlog 297
![ได้เวลา! พาน้องแฝดฉีดวัคซีนครบ 1 เดือน🫣 [cc] แดนแพทตี้ SS2 | EP.52 |](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/IzeLtaXBLNE/mqdefault.jpg)
My ggg grandfather was shot at the presidio in 1835. The first casualty of the Texas Revolution.
Wow!
Is your grandmother a DTR?
Wow.
How interesting! Hopefully your family has some fascinating stories about him!
RIP
Goliad is great little town. As a child my parents drove us all over Texas. To visit mission. I grew up in San Antonio. My mom's family was from Gonzales, Texas.
Best video of all as of yet. Very informative & beautiful town. Court house absolutely georgous!!! Loved it! & I have been with you from the beginning of your trip!
Your videos just keep getting more interesting! Great photography and editing as well. Thanks for providing such an informative tour of a most interesting town!
Thank you!
Congrats on the 400K !! well and truly deserved. LOVE those trees !! how sensible. Great trip Joey// Hi to Nicole. Cheers from Sth Australia. CY
Thank you!!
I love the architecture of many of these older buildings and the history of their towns. It makes you want to know things you didn't know; what happened to the people, what their lives were like, did they get along, their local festivities, how did they survive, and etc. These old buildings have such style and class - you can feel they have a story to share, much unlike the modern boxes of today. (My father was a bricklayer and he took great pride in his work, and it showed). I hope no one gets triggered when you go over the history and want to destroy this part of what shaped America. You'll ruin something you'll never recover, like it or not, this is who we are. Leave it alone; deal with the good, bad, and ugly. A LOT of sweat and blood went into building our great nation. Thank you for going into such depth!
Learned about all of these places and events in Texas History class at Galena Park Junior High School and in more depth at Galena Park High School. To this day, though I now live in The People's Republic of Maryland, I still value my Texas history.
Congratulations on 400K. 🎉😊
Thanks, man!! :)
@ 11:14 Cat Found 🙀😻 Wow what a History lesson Fantastic job. Maybe a school can use this video. Thank you for the hard work. Say Hi to Nicky for me, hope she is doing good.
Thanks, Les!
So well done, thank you. Great voice and cadence for absorbing info.
Yes,. well done.
Can’t wait to be riding shotgun with you guys on all your adventures. Love you guys. Cheers 🍻 from OZ. 🇦🇺🫶🫶✌️
Awesome!
I live in Texas and never heard of this place before
Very interesting history. Thanks for posting.
That was great you did texas history some justice. Where in west texas are yall headed.
Big Spring! :)
Best channel on YT! Hope you swing down and do Ft. Davis, Alpine, and Marfa in West Texas. Youll be glad you did!👍✌️
Working on that. :)
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Thanks!
BTW, you may had seen the banner for their monthly fare that they have around the courthouse where vendors sell their wares. Worth a trip if you're in the area. Also there is a burger place (or was one, looks like it got flattened or closed its doors and became something else).
Beautiful!
Oh yes the hanging tree straight history. Sad yet needs to be told.
Very interesting! You never went back and explored Chicago, just the Riverwalk. You went to Gary and Milwaukee.
You might want to check your dates. The story goes, Santa Ana marched to Goliad and then on to San Antonio (Alamo). The Battle of Goliad took place on October 9, 1835. The Battle of The Alamo was February 23 to March 6, 1836.
Correction: Battle of Gonzales, TX was 10-2-1835. Goliad, TX was 10-9-1835.
Santa Ana marched on The Alamo 2-23-1836.
I wasn't referencing the Battle Of Goliad. I was referencing the Goliad Massacre.
Great video!
Thanks!
That seems rather unusual of trees being in the middle of the road.
I was raised there , moved away in 2014 .
My Brother in Law lives there and does the reenactments at the La Bahia
There is a very old cemetery to the left of Fannin's memorial. Some stones so old you can't read anymore.
My mom's side of the family is from Goliad. Been there more than a couple centuries
Hope you enjoyed the Hanging Tree Restaurant!!
Gruß aus Brandenburg 🇩🇪
Pozdrawiam Brandenburgii 🇩🇪
Amities Brandenbourg ❤️
Greetings from Brandenburg 🇩🇪👍
As a Texan, I must say, good job Sir. Well done.
$367k off the market. From Wikipedia: The Dr. L.W. and Martha E.S. Chilton House at 242 N. Chilton St. in Goliad, Texas, United States, was built in 1902. It was a work of architect Jules Leffland and of building contractor
Bailey Mills. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. The listing included two contributing buildings and two contributing structures. [
I saw that too. You beat me to it.
My Dad always loved to visit Goliad and would tell the tales of Texas history. Thank You for honoring this Great State of Texas!
My Daddy was the same way. We never passed a single historical marker no matter how 'in a hurry' we were. AND as he read the marker to the family, the boys and him would remove their hats or caps.
Australian here and that's a very cool place, Texas is No.1 on my list of places I want to visit, Goliad is now a must visit when I get over there. God bless Texas & I suspect there will be another significant chapter written in its history in years to come.
It's been said that Australians and Texans are very similar. :)
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Unfortunately we don't have any of the God given rights you guys have, but I do watch your videos regularly and the land around Texas is very similar to the part of Australia I live & I do suspect the people would be quite alike.
@@seandefreitas6673What rights are you missing in Australia? As an American I would love to visit Australia
@@andrewfreiji4647 No bill of rights here, So go through that list of rights you guys have and that's what we don't have. Look in saying that Australia is a beautiful country & if you get a chance you should visit , All I'm saying is the rights you guys have over there are something I dream of having.
Americans take their freedom and their bill of rights too lightly.
Great video. I'd like to add that there is another extremely significant historical site in Goliad. It's Mission Espiritu Santo de Zuniga - the Spanish Colonial mission that the Presidio LaBahia was built to protect. The mission was established in 1749, and is now part of Goliad State Park and Historic Site. The museum located in one of the mission buildings is dedicated to the site's 18th century Native American and Spanish Colonial history, as well as it's 20th century Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) history. The mission grounds and buildings are lovely, and well worth a visit!
i lived in rockport and hurricane harvey was brutal on this entire area . rockport was wiped out. port lavaca devastated . but since houston got ten days of rain and flooding , this entire area was forgotten and ignored.
Much like when Rita hit and the nation only cared about Katrina.
Going to have to watch this one again. I love the history, the court house, the hanging tree, the kitty in the fort...just everything! The house is 7 bedrooms and 7 baths, $450,00, 4,768 sq. ft., ,66 acre lot. Built in 1894. The little house fenced in with it might be included. 23 pictures of inside. Can't wait for more of your travels!
Unless the city decides they need 242 Chilton for a museum, there is just about zero market for that house: people don't have such large families anymore, and it would take an additional several hundred thousand in remodeling and updates to become a proper BNB.
@@Thomas63r2 I agree, while that's a beauty outside, I feel like the price should be closer to 300s and that is to someone who cares. You'd have to move in lots of family and hire someone to live there and work on it full time for a few years to be worth the cost. Then you might have something bed and breakfast ready. You got to figure utilities would also be rough for all that space. But it would be special if you applied some TLC.
I saw the house listed on Zillow for $281 800
Where did you find those pictures?
I saw the same thing, Zestimate range
$208,000 - $347,000 No pictures though
Was raised in Yorktown, which is nearby. We left to raise a family in Corpus Christi and now moved back to Goliad rural area. Love it here!
Yorktown Western Day's
Is one of my favorite festivals.
Victoria TX 🕺
Such an underrated part of texas love driving thru the area
I agree.
From New Zealand, I have appreciated the views into a lot of little places in the United States that I have never heard of, and it has given me an insight into the struggle of some of the American people. Can't say however, until now, that I have seen a place that I would particularly like to visit. The 'town centers' are often just plain depressing. This however, is the most fascinating place you have shown, I do not know why the history is not much more known, the architecture of the town is remarkable, it looks busy, and if I do ever visit Texas it would be first on my list to see.
I'm sure this was done in other states, but the town square for Texas centered around the courthouse. There's still many town squares which are vibrant, especially on Hwy 36, though I'll admit there's a triple more that are a sad mess, or simply no longer exist in the name of progress.
Also, I have seen some of his videos. He purposely looks for the run down and dilapidated and does not give a representative view into how most of the towns live. He's looking for the worst of it and then adds in some of the special. He must feel that the mundane is not worthy of his videos.
We don't really have "Town Centers" many US mid size and larger cities lost their downtowns to malls. Many are trying to make those types of things. America is plagued by some of the worst planning on the planet. The US "Subarban neighborhood' is one of the worst ideas the US ever foisted on the world. Very few americans live in a walkable area. very few live within walking distance of any major commercial or even public services (like parks and what we call "Open spaces" (parks where the landscape it natural).. America SUCKS for city planning.
@denverleatherboy Are you preaching the woke "15 Minute City" narrative? That "plan" would necessitate a city center for about every five hundred residents. I know this because my hometown was a "15 Minute City" in the 1960s.
To expand the number of customers to allow each Center to be economically viable citizens would have to live in highrise apartments. You may find that model perfectly satisfactory, but the popular trend is moving toward minifarm acreages.
Do we in the USA really need to adopt the communist planner's style where humans are discouraged from traveling outside their local district?
Americans are explorers from our bloodlines. Being confined to a zone only isolates us from knowledge we obtain from observing change and innovation outside our zone, facilitating forced ghettoization.
In colonial America all houses were unpainted or painted white. Imagine the people's excitement when they observed their first Red Oxide painted house? That's unlikely to happen in your ideal "15 Minute City", which is utterly demoralizing. Greenspacr is a farce if man has no right to put his hands in dirt, walk bstrfoot through his garden. A walkway through a nature park is totally hands off. It's a ridiculous substitute for grounding the body and soul.
The 15 Minute City encourages isolation, discourages assimilation to the point that a whole community will eventually be bloodline related.
There's a small German community up the road from me who isolated themselves from 2 other towns in the county from the time of their community organization for a hundred yrs, to the 1980s. By the 80s enough of the men had been off to college to understand that their community's high rate of birth defects were a result of inbreeding. In the 1970s there was a big change in attitudes. There was pressure on young men seeking a marriage partner to go off to another similarly inbred community to seek a wife of their faith.
During my childhood these people's children weren't allowed to play with us kids across the line that dilenated our communities. Merely driving a school bus down the county road that separated us was akin to entering enemy territory. There was always some level of pot stirring about it when a new bus driver on our side took a wrong turn.
The children growing up two miles from me had learned at home (mostly from their mothers) that we "others" were outside their social realm, and their children were punished for any association with outsiders.
For their town to survive genetic linebreeding those clannish ideas needed to be eliminated. For the first time their sons were encouraged to court and marry wives that brought new genetics into their fold. I spent my life living across the barbed wire fence observing members of this small community. In the late 1960s our basketball teams scrimmaged theirs before the regular season began. I felt like we were behind enemy lines in a war zone. In those days scrimmages weren't attended by the public. In other neighboring towns there might be 5 people in the stands, but in that town any competition was taken seriously to the point that rabid, foaming-at-the-
mouth mothers of players stood right up on the sideline screaming at opposing players waving arms, lunging onto the court like a pack of barely restrained dogs. It was a bizarre spectacle to this 13 y.o. observer. The court competition was feeble so there was little benefit for our team. The scrimmages stopped and we more timid kids were glad.
My father was well acquainted with almost all the farmers, and many of the businessmen in that community. He talked about the negative aspects of isolation for the farmers as each generation raised families of 7 to 10 offspring, 75% had to move elsewhere to be economically successful because dividing 160 acre farms by 3 or 4 boys made for economic strain. That's when I learned it was custom for girls to leave the nest with only a dowery. My mom and her sisters had inherited ranch land equivalent to their brothers, so this sons only practice was a surprise to me. Evidently my grandparents were progressive. Who knew? 😮 My mom born in 1919 was the youngest girl, and the middle of 9 offspring. 1919 was the year women were given the right to vote. Not sure if that coincides with the right to own property under their name.
Farmers in the self-isolated community sought ways to make a living on less acreage viable. There were a lot of dairies built in the 1970s. Wild fluctuation in milk prices coupled with fabulous innovation in milking and milk handling gradually eliminated all but one of their small dairies. After dairy biz died there was a turn to raising high value crops like sugar beets. High maintenance made that crop perfect for farmers with small acreage, but as their little economy grew a few young men spread wings and a few flew out of the nest, moved out of oversight of the the church elders, where they could buy hundreds, even thousands of acres of land.
Their parochial school went public as the need to modernize became more difficult to resist outside influence. By the time my great grandchildren are grown that little enclave will have shed all vestages of their discriminatory practices. That town is still a "15 Minute City".
@@rt3box6tx74 Wow! Have you ever considered writing as a career or hobby? I read every word of your comment and it was a fascinating glimpse of your childhood. I could actually picture moms screaming with spittle flying from their mouths during a scrimmage. Thank you for sharing this I really enjoyed it.
This was really one of your best that I have seen. Thank you for the video. ❤️
Wow, thank you!
Such an awesome town to visit. Congratulations on 400k! Much love from Texas!
Nick Johnson’s doing Texas videos too now
@@TOCC50 cool!
Thanks so much!!
Col Fannin is my several times great uncle. I remember my grandfather said he was told by his great-great-grandfather that Col Fannin obeyed an order that he should have disobeyed. Sam Houston messaged to Col. Fannin that he should surrender and then join the major Texian army to continue the fight for independence. The Fannin family feels that if he had fought to the last man as did the Alamo defenders, then he would have been remembered along with William Travis, Jim Bowie and David Crocket.
Wow!
Things about Goliad left out. The chapel he showed is where they held all those captured. How they all fit in there is beyond me. Then when it came to killing the men. The Mexican army either didn't feel right about just killing all the man or felt it more sporting. But they gave them all a running chance. They let them run and then chanced them down and killed every one of them. I believe it was more of the latter. Because of what they did to Fannin. Fannin had a few simple requests. Which were more often than not honored. One not to be shot in the head. Two have a Christian burial, and three have his belongs sent back to his family. They honored none of them. They shot him in the face. They burned is body and the stole is belonging. Also, they left the dead where they lay. So, when the Texans showed up, the body from the battlefield and Goliad had been eaten on and were just rotting in the sun.
Thanks for the history lesson. My great great grandmother was born in Goliad in 1867 and got married in Victoria in 1887. We have a lot of family history in the Goliad/Victoria area.
Once again, thanks for the history lesson 👍🏾🙂
Beautiful town Goliad lot of history pretty cool .The preservation is excellent. I especially loved the story of General Ignacio Zaragoza fascinating man very gifted. God rest his soul as well as, Father Miquel Hilgaldo who urged Mexicans to reject Spanish rule and was killed for it. They died for their belief in independence self preservation love that. I respect them because come what may they stood for what they believed God rest their souls and all of those who fought for the cause. Mexican independence.
All due respect (as they say), but Goliad can't be an anagram of Hidalgo because it doesn't have an H. Oops ...just listened to your narrative ... as Emily Litella says, "never mind !!"😅
My girlfriends great great great grandfather was Alfred Giles, the architect who was responsible for designing the court house. His works are all around Texas and are truly fascinating!
Also, my relative was Zoraster Robinson. He fought in the battle of San Jacinto but apparently was sick and didn't make it to the Alamo. Whew!
Thank you for the history lesson.
Things they should teach in schools.
That tree is a child dream climbing tree, This town was alive compared to most that you drive thru, was nice to see it all and the history, Thank you see you on the next one
What a beautiful city. One of my absolute favorite videos of yours. Oh..and 242 Chilton was listed in january 2022 for $460 000 but as I can see, its is currently off the market.
This house needs a lot of maintenance ... 10K $/year
@@MM-ks7vsyes
The joke in Goliad is.... so the drunks don't have to rut up your yard to hit a tree
I grew up thirty miles west of there. My name is Ernesto Alvarez. My sister is Francis Alvarez. My family came from that area Goliad and Yorktown. I often wonder if the angel of Goliad is related.
Could be!
Thoroughly enjoyed this video. A lot of history which i knew about growing up. The only difference is im born and raised in Australia and this was in our history lessons back in the early 70's🇦🇺🦘🪃🇦🇺🦘🪃
One of your best so far. This channel is great for uncovering hidden history in our North American backyard, places most of us would never think to take the turn off for.
Thank you for showing my beautiful hometown
A little supplementary history if I may make so bold.
The Napoleon you refer to styled himself Napoleon 3rd of France. He was nephew to Napoleon Bonaparte who was defeated by us Brits at Waterloo in Belgium.
Apparently a Hapsburg adventurer went to Mexico to try to set up a monarchy with French support but was defeated, captured and executed by the Mexican republic.
Probably one of your best videos. Wishing you a wonderful 2024 and safe travels.
From a British history buff.
*Maximilian was the Hapsburg adventurer.
Well well well, someone finally visiting my area🤣🤣…..Actually I live right on the outskirts of Victoria but still my area. Goliad is a very quiet town and if you think that the way some of the homes there look unlivable, well you must have missed Telferner right outside of Victoria! Now there theres a place that will leave you thinking………”Why?” and “How?”😳😳So back to Goliad, everyone helping everyone just good people. Most commute into Victoria for work and then you have the farmers and small business owners. We do a lot of Market Days and street dances for fun. They use to have the Texas Mile out at the Victoria airport but not since 2019.
Also the celebration of 5 de mayo in Goliad Texas is very special, there is called a sister city named Hidalgo in the state of Nuevo León México which every year the government officials are invited by the Goliad administration and their event hosts to have a good brief commemoration of the ties to the both cities and is celebrated with live Tex-Mex music, lots of food and small shops to get souvenirs and many other things, the officials from both cities give speeches in English and Spanish.
The ties to this 2 cities recalls that Ignacio Zaragoza born in Goliad, and hero of the pueblas battle in Mexico was married to Rafaela Padilla de Zaragoza born in Hidalgo Nuevo León México, and that is what the celebration is also one part of both cities celebrate together the defeat of the French army which was considered one of the most powerful in the world at that time; also I would like to mention that I have family in Goliad which calls lived there in the 1800’s and also have family in Hidalgo Nuevo León with that been said, I’ll like to make and extend an invitation to the great celebration of 5 de Mayo weekend to joint in and have fun, have a tour and know a little more of our history USA 🇺🇸 and Mexico 🇲🇽
Wonderful educational film. I Knew the history of Goliad and the slaughter of unarmed men by the Mexican Army. I did not know about The Angel of Goliad, Mexican General Ignacio Zaragoza, details about Father Hidalgo, or that the first signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence at the Loreto Chapel. Thanks.
Thank you!!!
Yes, Goliad is a beautiful small town and is very historic to the story of Texas Independence (which happens to be today as I write this, March 2). While you included the Presidio and Zaragosa’s birthplace, you didn’t show the beautiful Mission Espiritu Santo which is located just down the road in the State Park and the Goliad Memorial Auditorium which was built in 1936 to commemorate the Centennial of Texas’ Independence. There are hotels, restaurants and a lot more presentable homes in Goliad. Great ranches too. There are great schools and more churches of different denominations. The Presidio has one of the oldest extant (Catholic)churches in the U.S called The Chapel of Our Lady of Loreto. I strongly encourage folks to visit all these sites. There is an annual reenactment of the Massacre at Goliad on the closest weekend around the time it actually took place, Palm Sunday, March 27, 1836. The actual battle cry at the Battle of San Jacinto, where the Texian Army defeated Santa Anna and won Independence, is “Remember the Alamo, Remember Goliad!”
Stand Strong Texas.!
That court house was just amazing
Didn't know all the stories, but the wife and I have been to all the forts and missions and cool stuff to see!!! This brought back all the fun memories.
Been to Goliad a lot. It’s a beautiful old Texas town. Much history here but you should have gone to the State park. They have an old Spanish Mission there. Great video
Another awesome video! Very interesting facts about the 'Hanging tree' in particular. Talk about going out on a limb!
Sorry, I couldn't resist... Thank you once again for taking us on tour with you. Always just the right amount of information about a towns history. Lovely old buildings, they sure don't make them like they used to.
Thank you!
Awesome video!
That house on 242 N Chilton Ave was sold for 293,600, beautiful home!
I know that town well I'm a paramedic there. It's so weird see it on u tube lol . The the old metal building u were asking about used to be a feed store. U miss the old well next to the mason lodge. Loved the video!
NICE,..Nice..nice ,so very interesting, all of the sites you shared, great filming "Joe, you have the touch what a history ! Looking forward to seeing your next trip..thank you Good "Sir". God's safe keeping in your travels.🌼
Didn't have time to read all comments, someone else may have answered your inquiry, but the corrugated metal "L" shaped building at 26:00 looks like an old dilapidated cotton gin. The giveaway is the suction tubes hanging from the ceiling of the front shed. When you turned the corner I could see them hanging down. They were used to vacuum cotton out of trailers parked underneath.
Cotton then went inside and was run through the mill to extract seed and fiber from burrs.
Cotton burrs are the husk that protect the seed and fiber during growth and development from flower bloom to harvest. They look similar to massive Rose Hips. Burrs burst open and dry out when fiber inside reaches maturity and puts pressure on the husk. My son's agronomy professor loved teaching about cotton because he believed it to be the most complicated plant on earth.
Seed goes on to be cleaned of fiber, then accumulated to be sent off to be ground into animal feed, pressed to extract oil or saved for next years crop.
Burrs are sent outside to pile up as a waste product that can also be ground into animal feed, etc.
Fiber stays behind to be compressed with heavy machines, into rectangular, burlap-wrapped bales to be stored inside until fabric manufacturers purchase and ship it to their mills for further cleaning and eventually spun into raw thread used to make their end product.
Todays bales weigh near 500 lbs each, but an early gin like this they were probably 100 lbs.
A pic of a modern cotton gin could be displayed beside this to show how these building have changed. It may be rare to see the suction operation out front of modern gins as many eliminated the suction method in favor of innovative automation.
Eli Whitney might not recognize the machinery he invented to separate components of cotton after all the innovation his idea has spawned.
This one is one of the classics of your entire portfolio! Great job Joe! Looking forward to summer, thank you!
Hanging with Mr. Cooper
I love those trees in the middle of the road
Me too!
The US as we never see it, thanks for uploading Joe and Nic
Also I just resubed because apparently I was unsubscribed 🤬
My mother and I were there in 1980s. There was a Texas Cattlemen's barbecue in the parade grounds so visiting the fort had a delicious smell. No, we did not crash the dinner. We visited the burial mound. Very humbling sight.
I grew up in that area. That chapel. Talk about feeling ghosts! Excellent video!
I saw your mention of the tree on Instagram. So already had the spoiler, but still makes for a fun watch!
I use my Instagram as a sneak peak into the next video. :)
That tree is awesome, but I'm surprised some haven't tried to take it down. I find the history of these towns you and your wife visit should be embraced and learned from. Y'all make awesome videos. Thank you for inviting everyone on your adventures.
Thank you!
The survivors in the street they paved around are amazing also!
It’s a terrible part of history and a lot of people were unjustly murdered on that tree but it’s an important part of history
@@martinel2450 And if we forget history we will be doomed to repeat it. History, good or bad, is a learning mechanism we should all embrace to improve the lives of all people. There will always be bad people, but good people will always prevail.
@@martinel2450how can you say unjustly? Were you alive when they hung people from the tree? That tree is part of Goliads history and should never be removed. You can either learn from history or you can repeat it.
Yeah, as a Texan, I love going through old Texas towns and learning the history. Haven't been to Goliad in a quite a while. I live in Florida now, but come to Texas often. You've made me want to take my girls to Goliad.
We live about 90 minutes from Goliad. If you love Texas history, Goliad is a must go to.
Great video. I did a one day business trip, saw the courthouse and hanging tree....but wow I had no idea. will check it out if i return
Hi there, Joe & Nic. Great video about Goliad and for refreshing the memories of our history in Texas! At 26:10, the wonderfully preserved building looks like it was a Cotton Gin. Looking through the open passage way there is a metal Suction Pipe hanging down in the center with 2 cables or ropes on each side of the Pipe connected to counter-weights to make it easier to raise and lower the outer Pipe to suction out the crop! My Father taught me how to handle the Suction in the mid-50’s; he was a Farmhand but during Fall-harvest he worked at a Gin for many years. The gins were newer than the one in Goliad and they had 2 Suctions next to each other. Looking forward to more of Texas western scenery and historical facts!!
Awesome!
Did he keep all his fingers?
Gins were notorious for taking them.
@@ferengiprofiteer9145 Yes, he had all his fingers because the Suction is the safest job to do at the Gin! When he let me run the Suction in the mid-50’s, I was about 10 years old and had a ‘great time’ doing that!! The real danger was for the Ginners who had to monitor the 4 ‘Stands’ where the cotton fiber is separated from the boll and the seed! I’ve seen some Old Ginners that limped because they got their foot caught in the machinery! Some even got their hands, also. The Press, where the cotton is packed in a Bale for shipping to the Compress, is not a very safe job either! Also, had Fires, Choke-Ups, and various other complications!
Wow lots of cool history with this one. Makes me want to visit and see it for myself. Thx to the person who let us know how much the home is for sell. Great video. Safe travels and sounds like some really great travels coming in the new year.
Family oral history has it that my third great grand uncle William Quinn was among those who were massacred at Goliad. But, my research confirmed that he was actually killed the Battle of Coleto Creek. For some reason - that made me feel a little better!
He was born in County Clare, Ireland and was one of the many Irish born Texans who fought for Texas Independence.
Timothy Hart another third great grand uncle was a signer of the Declaration of Independence at Goliad, His parents were native Irish. His brother Felix Hart, my third great grandfather, was killed due to his support of Texas Independence,
The area around San Patricio and Refugio Counties of South Texas were inhabited by Irish who settled there circa 1830 on Mexican Land Grants.
If you look at the names of Texans who died at Goliad and the names of the signers of that Declaration of Independence, you will find many Irish names.
Awesome comment. Thank you.
Great job I have passed through Goliad on 59 many times l didn't know what I was missing just a few blocks away.
I’ve lived in la Bahia my whole life, 34 years and I’m still watching your pov, very knowledgeable chap, thank you sir for investing your time into our small town 🙌🏼
Uh if you lived there your whole life you would know the town and county are called Goliad and LA Bahia is the presidio
@@chrisfhdbranson2331 duh I live two blocks away from the presidio, he talks about a lot more info that some ppl around here might not have known
Some of the shacks people live in is inexcusable! Somebody explain, why in the HELL are we giving OUR tax money to other countries, when we have our OWN people living in these conditions?!?? Our government is full of rich bloated criminals. Makes me sick.
I hope the residences realize they have a beautiful town. Love the historic buildings.
They should do all of Canada 🍁
Absolutely loved the trees in the middle of the road! Great video. And 400k 👍
Lol 😄@@thetrumanshow6468
I’m a native Texan and I ain’t never heard of this 💔 actually probably in tx history but I usually slept 😢
It looks like a lovely place to settle- quiet. But as he was walking around the rock building where the massacre was, I could’ve sworn I seen what looked like a couple skull rocks. 🤷♂️
Been to goliad lots of times on the way to yoakum Texas from Alice Texas to see my family now living in Tennessee lots of history here too never a dull moment discover new trails and old buildings
It's sad how the education system is very selective on what history the students get to learn, Thank you it was very informative to me. Aussie 🤠😎💯❗
Thanx Joe 4 that history lesson! Very interesting and i love history. Gonna watch it again! Trees in the middle of the roads. Wow! Very special trees there. U and Nicole stay safe out there.
Great restaurant in the town square there. Really good steaks! Remember the Alamo; Remember Goliad! The Goliad Massacre was horrific to read of, and worse, to consider.
Nice video..that part of Texas can get very hot..what we Texans call "blazin' hot"...
Zillow indicates that 242 Chilton Street is not currently for sale, but has an estimated value of $281,000.
The house for sale on 242 Chilton is off the market. Estimated value is $310,300
Grew up right down the road. Went there many times over the years. Probably wouldn't' t live there but interesting place with a lot of history. Also, many neat attractions in addition to the missions, there is a brewery, winery and a few good restaurants as well.
Is there anyway you can do a video on the (Runaway scrape)? It's in Texas and it's about the women who helped win the war against Santa Ana.
If you go and visit Lockhart Texas, you’ll see a courthouse almost exactly like the one in Goliad.
I love our Texas history.❤
Thank you for the video. Goliad is our home since 1996. I'm