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Black plaque № 54537

Goliad, TX, United States

First United Methodist Church of Goliad The historic congregation was organized in the 1840s. In 1859, the Goliad circuit of the Methodist church reported 166 members, the largest membership in the Rio Grande conference. Some African Americans worshipped with Anglo Methodists before emancipation unt

il 1872, when the first African American church organized in Goliad. More than eighty pastors have served the church, some as circuit riders that also served the Methodist church in Fannin. The early

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