Goliad: Market House Museum

Goliad: Market House Museum

  • <p>Market House Museum (cdSanchez)</p> <p>Red wood frame building with a bell tower and sign saying Market House Museum</p>
  • <p>Saunders’ Livestock Company business card (Witte Museum)</p> <p>Vintage business card with Art Nouveau graphics saying G.W. Saunders, Live Stock Commission Merchant. All Stock Sold at Top Prices</p>
  • <p>Trail drivers gathering. George Saunders, second from left, Charles Goodnight, second from right. (San Antonio Conservation Society)</p> <p>Four older men seated for a photograph</p>
  • <p>George Saunders (left) with Will Rogers (center), c. early 1930s. (UT-Arlington Library, Special Collections)</p> <p>Three men standing with a horse</p>

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Market House Museum features exhibits about farming and ranching – including a wall of local cattle brands – as well as artifacts from early Texas and American Indian life. Its building, built in 1871, was formerly used as a meat and produce market and later a firehouse before being restored as a museum in 1967.

Market House Museum

  • Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
  • Admission: None
  • 205 S. Market St., Goliad, TX
  • 361-645-8767
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  • National Register of Historic Places