Goliad: Market House Museum

Red wood frame building with a bell tower and sign saying Market House Museum

Market House Museum (cdSanchez)

Vintage business card with Art Nouveau graphics saying G.W. Saunders, Live Stock Commission Merchant. All Stock Sold at Top Prices

Saunders’ Livestock Company business card (Witte Museum)

Four older men seated for a photograph

Trail drivers gathering. George Saunders, second from left, Charles Goodnight, second from right. (San Antonio Conservation Society)

Three men standing with a horse

George Saunders (left) with Will Rogers (center), c. early 1930s. (UT-Arlington Library, Special Collections)

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
  • Visit Website
  • National Register of Historic Places
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