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Texas | Trips
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EL CAMINO REAL
AKA
The King's Highway,
Texas 21,
Old Spanish Trail, and
the Old San Antonio Road
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El
Camino Real
by Archie P. McDonald
In 2004, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison succeeded in persuading Congress
to designate El Camino Real, at least the Texas and Louisiana portions,
a national historic corridor. We Texans, especially we East Texans,
knew it all along.
El Camino Real, or King's Highway, or Royal Road,
designates an official thoroughfare, much as we would refer to I-20
or US 59 today. It began in 1690 when Alonzo DeLeon crossed Texas
on a northeastern course previously untroubled by Europeans to establish
Mission
San Francisco de las Tejas near the Neches
River so France would understand that the territory belonged to
Spain... more |
From
"Holiday
Day Trips" by Bob Bowman
"If you're into road trips, take a drive down East
Texas' oldest highway. The King's Highway (Texas 21)
stretches from Toledo
Bend Reservoir near Milam
to San Antonio. It
is also one of our most scenic roadways. The route was used by Indians
and traveled by Spanish missionaries in 1791. It is also known as
El Camino
Real, the Old Spanish Trail, and the Old San Antonio
Road." |
Marker for the
Camino Real (King's Highway)
that passes through Milam.
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, December, 2007 |
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