El Camino Real de los Tejas-- Site of Mission Nuestra Senora de los Dolores de los Ais, San Augustine TX - National Scenic Byways on Waymarking.com

The 1936 gray granite Centennial marker for Mission Nuestra Senora de los Dolores de los Ais is located on the grounds of the Mission Dolores state historic site near downtown San Augustine.

In 1936, there was nothing here to see, since there is little evidence left of any of the East Texas missions. The East Texas missions were hastily built to try and hold down the Spanish claim to this part of New Spain from French incursions from Louisiana. The missions were crudely made from lumber, not like the missions established further down El Camino Real in San Antonio after the missions in East Texas failed and the French threat abated.

For decades after Mission Dolores failed, the only things telling its story in San Augustine were the two historical markers erected here: the 1918 DAR marker and the 1936 Texas Centennial marker.

The El Camino Real de los Tejas has been designated a National Historic Trail through the states of Texas and New Mexico. (visit link)

"From the Rio Grande to the Red River Valley
Come on a journey that will carry you through 300 years of Louisiana and Texas frontier settlement and development on a Spanish colonial "royal road" that originally extended to Mexico City, Mexico.

You are about to travel 2,500 miles, from Mission San Juan Bautista Guerrero, Mexico to Fort St. Jean Baptiste Nachitoches Parish, Louisiana."

Program: Other Website: [Web Link] Official Name: El Camino Real de los Tejas

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