Caddo Trace
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txoilgas
N 33° 00.796 W 094° 41.206
15S E 342443 N 3654021
Located on SH-11 across the road from the entrance to Daingerfield State Park .
Waymark Code: WM7TNZ
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 12/02/2009
Views: 15
Marker Number: 7842
Marker Text:
(1 mi. N)
Hunting and trade route for area between Arkansas and Red Rivers; used by Caddo Indians, who occupied the northeast corner of Texas and adjacent states.
Like many Indian trails, it was later usurped by whites; after 1840, it became part of stage and mail routes. Teamsters used it transporting goods to market; soldiers marched along it to and from several wars.
The trace follows or crosses in places 3 other early trails: Cherokee, Choctaw, and Trammel's.
Today State Highways 11 and 49 (Hughes Springs to Daingerfield) follow the same general route. (1967)
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