Marker Inscription
King's Highway - Camino Real - Old San Antonio Road. Marked by the Daughters of the American Revolution and the State of Texas A.D. 1918
Historical Marker
King's Highway - Camino Real - Old San Antonio Road
The roadside stories worth pulling over for.
About this site
King's Highway - Camino Real - Old San Antonio Road is a historical marker in Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County, dedicated in 1918. It is one of 94 historical markers documented in Nacogdoches County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 232 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 31.6030, -94.6545 near Nacogdoches. The nearest cataloged historic site is Texas Stagecoaches, C.S.A. (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include On This Site Stood for a Century an Old Stone House, Post Office Building, Old, and Site of the Home of John S. Roberts.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5507020167. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
This marker at Nacogdoches commemorates the King's Highway, or El Camino Real de los Tejas, the Spanish colonial route that ran roughly 1,000 miles from the Rio Grande to the Sabine and points into Louisiana. Nacogdoches was a principal town along the road, which carried Spanish missionaries, soldiers, and later Anglo colonists into East Texas. Between 1915 and 1918 the Daughters of the American Revolution and the State of Texas placed 123 pink granite markers about every five miles along the surveyed route.
Sources: hmdb.orgtexasce.org
Get Texas Roam — all 28,000 sites in your pocket
See this site and every marker, cemetery, courthouse, museum and landmark across Texas on one live map — find what's near you, get directions, and check in as you roam.
Nearby in Nacogdoches County
Historical Marker
Texas Stagecoaches, C.S.A.
Nacogdoches · 1964
Historical Marker
On This Site Stood for a Century an Old Stone House
Nacogdoches · 1936
Historical Marker
Site of the Home of John S. Roberts
Nacogdoches · 1936
Historic Place
Post Office Building, Old
Nacogdoches · 1992
Historic Place
Woodmen of the World Building
Nacogdoches · 1992
Historical Marker
Site of the Home of Antonio Gil y Barbo
Nacogdoches · 1936
Historic Place
Roberts Building
Nacogdoches · 1992
Historic Place
Cotton Exchange Building, Old
Nacogdoches · 1992