In 1914 the state built a rock wall around the park and set up a twenty-eight-foot grey-granite monument. Governor James Ferguson attended the dedication of the park. In 1965 the thirteen-acre park was placed under the care of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department by act of the legislature. Effective January 1, 2008, operational control of Fannin Battleground State Historic Site was transferred to the Texas Historical Commission by the Eightieth Texas Legislature. The gin screw stood at the park entrance until 2008, and a small museum in the former bandstand still displays guns, implements, shot, and cannonballs exhumed at the site.
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Goliad County Historical Commission, The History and Heritage of Goliad County, ed. Jakie L. Pruett and Everett B. Cole (Austin: Eakin, 1983). Victoria Advocate, September 28, 1934.
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Texas Revolution
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