Route of Old Military Road
N 31° 43.879 W 099° 14.879
14R E 476508 N 3510681
This state historic marker is located in a highway pullout east of Santa Anna TX
Waymark Code: WMV483
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/20/2017
Views: 5
This marker is located a few miles east of Santa Anna on the US 67/84 at the FM 567.
Marker Number: 4371
Marker Text:
Opened in 1850s for supply trains and cavalry travel along line of U.S. forts from Belknap on the Brazos to Fort Mason and to Fort Clark near the Rio Grande.
Along this road passed great men, including Col. Robert E. Lee, later (1861-65) general of Confederate forces in the Civil War. (1972)
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