Presidio La Bahia is a museum in Goliad, Goliad County, dedicated in 1968. It is one of 3 museums documented in Goliad County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 90 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 28.6477, -97.3824 near Goliad. The nearest cataloged historic site is Zaragoza, General Ignacio (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Angel of Goliad, La Bahia Cemetery, and James W Fannin and Men Cemetery.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4200000188. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
Presidio Nuestra Senora de Loreto de la Bahia, known as Presidio La Bahia, is a Spanish fort near Goliad first established in 1721, relocated in 1725, and moved to its present site on the San Antonio River in 1749. Rebuilt in stone by 1771, it was the only Spanish fortress guarding the Gulf Coast between the Rio Grande and the Mississippi, and the town of Goliad grew up around it. It was the scene of the 1836 Goliad Massacre during the Texas Revolution, was restored in the 1960s with a $1 million gift from Kathryn O'Connor, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1967.
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