The Most Sacred, Historical Town In Texas - What I Saw In GOLIAD
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- Опубликовано: 19 янв 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.
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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
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 🕺
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.
As a Texan, I must say, good job Sir. Well done.
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
Such an underrated part of texas love driving thru the area
I agree.
LOVE this. The history, the tour, the narration, and everything about the channel you have created is such a welcome rest from commercial television and other nonsensical diversions. Thank you for sharing the roads with us.
Wow, thank you!
I have friend that moved there because of their school being exceptional. They loved them.
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.
This was really one of your best that I have seen. Thank you for the video. ❤️
Wow, thank you!
$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.
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!
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
That court house was just amazing
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 👍🏾🙂
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!!
my coworker lives in Goliad. His parents house is across the street from the Presidio. They're always finding artifacts. Says they have a collection of buttons and a lot of other small items. They allow one of their friends to search for artifacts so he can give them to the museum
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.
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.
I love going through Goliad when I visit family in Victoria, it's such a beautiful town and so full of history.
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
I love those trees in the middle of the road
Me too!
Thanks for taking us with you two very cool
Excellent video! Thanks!
Awesome video!
That house on 242 N Chilton Ave was sold for 293,600, beautiful home!
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
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.
The narration of some of the glimpses of history of Texas is really interesting. Thank you Joe.
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!
One of your best and most informative videos. Keep 'em comin', looking forward to the next one.
This one is one of the classics of your entire portfolio! Great job Joe! Looking forward to summer, thank you!
Hanging with Mr. Cooper
Absolutely love the vids, I appreciate your attention to detail and always giving additional info.
I love our Texas history.❤
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!
Best video yet. On our bucket list to go and visit. Thank you!
This was fantastic. Thank you for showing it in such detail, Joe!
This is the most powerful video I have experienced from you. Thanks very much for your attention to detail and the thoughtful cadence of the filming.
Wow, thank you!
I grew up in that area. That chapel. Talk about feeling ghosts! Excellent video!
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
Fascinating! The hanging tree is beautiful and haunting. Imagine the things it's seen.
Remarkable video, thank you.
As a Texan I swell up with pride when it comes to Texas history. I made a miniature Alamo with stucco for a school project when I was in elementary. Well done, thanks for showing this!
Wish I could give you TWO thumbs up for this one. Great work!
Thank you for showing us this historical site.
I love to watch your videos , very interesting places. I find your narration relaxing. Thank you !
Thank you for sharing our beautiful Texas history
you really do great tours and video..thanks
Stand Strong Texas.!
Awesome show Joe as always you knock it out the park😊
Another well researched, informative video as usual.
So happy yall have reached 400k!!! I look forward to yalls videos so much. Thank you for all that you do!
Thank you so much!!
Great tour and description of the Historical events and area
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.
Thanks for the video
Very informative and interesting
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!
Again a wonderful vid. Looking so so forward to the trips out west. We'll be following right with ya. Stay safe.
Always enjoy your commentary on architecture and as a Philadelphian this one was especially appreciated.
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.🌼
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.
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.
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🇦🇺🦘🪃🇦🇺🦘🪃
beautiful video and Awesome town thanks for sharing joe and Nic 👍
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
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Joe, appreciate these videos. Keep it up!
Very interesting history. Thanks for posting.
Always enjoy the vids! Thank you!
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!
Thank you for sharing this story with us. I’ve been there several times and I never get tired of going there. It’s a beautiful town with a lot of history just a great place to visit and relax. I have some relatives that live a little bit north of Goliad out in the countryside and it’s beautiful and peaceful there. Safe travels and see you soon.
Thanks for uploading such an awesome video.
Thank you!
Absolutely loved the trees in the middle of the road! Great video. And 400k 👍
Lol 😄@@thetrumanshow6468
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
I have passed by Goliad on US 59 so many times and never stopped to look around. I can do it in a day trip so I will have to go see in person soon. Thanks for this historical trip!
Great history lessons with visuals !
Thanks to your video I went to visit Goliad. I brought my ham radio, booked a couple of nights in a nice hotel, and learned a lot about history. I had fun with the (many!) HF radio contacts, but walking by the various historical sites, and praying in the chapel in the Presidio was the capstone of the vacation.
That is awesome!
Thank you for the history lesson.
Things they should teach in schools.
Your content is awesome! It’s zen just to have on all day while working or while visiting my parents. Its interesting historical facts along with scenery. Always creates conversation when we’re watching. So enjoyable!
Awesome!
That is something else , fantastic work
Excellent video!!
Thank you!
You do a pro job documenting everything keep up the good work
So well done, thank you. Great voice and cadence for absorbing info.
Yes,. well done.
Joe ! This was a fabulous video, and I definitely didn't learn many of the insightful detail history that you so well communicated...in my school years. Thank you !!
Wow, thank you!
Awesome video, lots of interesting historical information here. I really enjoyed it.
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.
A very awesome and informative vlog . Thank you joe
He's Joe. Nick is good too.
@@sailor4116 thank you 😊
I haven't seen all of your videos , but of what I have seen this one was the most interesting.
Great tour!
GREAT VIDEO. THANK YOU FOR THE EDUCATION.
Stories come to life when you tell them. Safe travels Joey
I just found your videos a couple days ago and am hooked on watching them. It’s amazing how they were able to construct huge beautiful buildings like the court house way back then without the construction equipment like we have today.
Love, love Goliad! Thank you for visiting!
Best looking downtown I have seen from this channel.
Thank you for the historical view😊
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.
wow! this was great.Learned so much. Thanks
GREAT TOUR 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!!
Again another great video. The trees are awesome. I just had my live oaks trimmed and now I can see the lake across the street again. Trees are very important to many Texans and how Goliad treats their trees is special. The Fort, the county court house and the downtown is all quite unique. Coupled with your historical narration makes this particular video extra special. When you retire from RUclips you need to get a historical mansion for yourself and run a B&B as your eye is always picking out the great ones. I am looking forward to this coming years videos. You will enjoy Old Town NewCastle, Delaware as it is a Colonial Historical gem. Also Fort Delaware on the Delaware River at Pea Patch Island is highly recommended. It is where war prisoners were held during the Civil War. See if you can't catch a reenactment at the Fort with your schedule. Have a good new year. You'll need to trade in the new Jeep next December with the milage you'll be putting on it.