Our visit to Goliad. You can click on any picture to make it larger

The other night here at the park, we went to a potluck dinner. The folks sitting across from us told about this neat, historic town near here named Goliad. We decided to spend the day yesterday visiting it. It was a great day! A little chilly...a little breezy...but really pretty nice. It took us about an hour to get there and we were able to go one way and come back another, which was nice...as a lot of the landscape around here is very flat, brown and barren. They are having a very severe drought through out Texas.



Goliad, which was named for Hildago (it is an anagram) is the 3rd oldest town in Texas. It was established while Texas was still part of Mexico. The town is very quaint and most of it's old buildings still remain. Everything is built around the old courthouse which was built in 1894. A couple of tornadoes have devastated it over the years but it has been restored both in and out. A hanging tree...a huge old live oak...still remains outside the main entrance. You can always click on a picture to make it bigger and read about the history of the tree when you come to the plaque.



We had a wonderful lunch at the Hanging Tree restaurant....really exceptional. And then walked all around town to explore all the cute shops. These shops seemed so much more interesting then the ones in Rockport. We did find a few things to buy!



After we left the town, we headed for some other historic sites very near. Here are the pictures.....