Goliad Advance-Guard

The Advance was a young lawyer's paper. J. A. White came to Goliad from the University of Mississippi law school, married Ruth Pettus of a pioneer Goliad family in 1903, and started the weekly in 1905; he later bought the Guard, and the National Register history of the state park dates the joined title to 1917. He sold the paper in 1920 and was elected county judge in 1924, but it stayed his platform. On February 27, 1930, its banner headline announced that a state park for Goliad was assured, if the county gave 200 acres.

What the plaque says

Goliad Advance-Guard The "Goliad Advance-Guard" was created by the merger of two newspapers. The "Guard" began in 1867, when Richard Wayne Davis bought the "Intelligencer" and changed its name. His son, R. T. Davis, published the paper from 1871 until 1892. A young editor from Mississippi, J. A. White, began the "Advance" in 1905. Eight years later, the two weekly publications were combined to become the "Goliad Advance-Guard." Correspondents from all parts of the county have served as local reporters. The "Advance-Guard" continues to supply residents with news of the county. (1985)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Goliad State Park and Historic Site — 0.8 mi
  Mission Espíritu Santo on the San Antonio River, a mission ranch whose herds seeded Texas cattle country, rebuilt from ruin by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.
• Presidio La Bahía — 1.4 mi
  A Spanish fort on its third site since 1749, held in turn by filibusters, insurgents and Fannin's Fort Defiance, rebuilt in stone in the 1960s around a chapel that never fell.
• Zaragoza Birthplace State Historic Site — 1.4 mi
  A rebuilt stone house beside La Bahía marking where Ignacio Seguín Zaragoza, the general of the Battle of Puebla and Cinco de Mayo, was born in 1829.
• Fannin Memorial Monument — 1.6 mi
  The 1938 pink granite memorial over the common grave of Fannin's men, shot on the roads out of Goliad on Palm Sunday 1836, the grave itself found again only in the 1930s.

More markers nearby

• Founding Site of First Baptist Church of Goliad — steps away
• Bull Durham Advertisement — steps away
• John Mason Brewer — steps away
• Goliad Tornado of 1902 — steps away