Six years after it was decommissioned, the mission ruins were at the center of the Battle of Refugio during the Texas Revolution. Mexican forces overwhelmed and executed the 200 Texan soldiers ...

PORT LAVACA — Ganado and Refugio have been ranked in the top four of the Class 2A, Division I state poll all season for a reason. Neither team was going to back down from a challenge ...

Further obstacles, however, lay ahead. The mission played home to the Battle of Refugio in 1836, where it found itself bombarded by cannon balls, Wales said. Although the building remained in use ...