Site of Trinidad

Historical marker location:

SH 21, Midway, Texas

( from Midway, take SH 21 about 3.5 mi. east to marker on south side of road)

Marker installed: 1936

Later known as Spanish Bluff

A fort and town as early as 1805

Captured by the Magee-Gutierrez Expedition in October, 1812.

Near here the survivors of the Battle of the Medina were executed in 1813.

Inhabitants of the town were butchered by order of the Spanish commander and the town desolated.

Erected by the State of Texas

1936.