{"id":41507,"count":1,"description":"Goliad is a city in Goliad County, Texas, United States. It had a population of 1975 at the 2000 census. Founded on the San Antonio River, it is the county seat of Goliad County. It is part of the Victoria, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area. Goliad is located on U.S. Highway 59, named also for the late U.S. Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen.\nIn 1747, the Spanish government sent Jos\u00e9 de Escand\u00f3n to inspect the northern frontier of its North American colonies, including Spanish Texas. In his final report, Escand\u00f3nt recommended that Presidio La Bahia be moved from its Guadalupe River location to the banks of the San Antonio River, so that it could better assist settlements along the Rio Grande. Both the presidio and the mission it protected, Mission Nuestra Se\u00f1ora del Esp\u00edritu Santo de Z\u00fa\u00f1iga, likely moved to their new location in October 1749. Escand\u00f3n proposed that 25\u00a0Mexican families be relocated near the presidio to form a civilian settlement, but he was unable to find enough willing...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/goliad\/","name":"Goliad","slug":"goliad","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/41507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=41507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}