El Camino Real de los Tejas -- La Calle Real del Norte, Durst-Taylor Home, Nacogdoches TX - National Scenic Byways on Waymarking.com

This state historic marker was placed in 1936 to celebrate the Centennial of Texas. The marker is located along North Street/the US 59 Business route at southwest corner of the Durst-Taylor Home, north of downtown Nacogdoches.

The 1936 Centennial marker reads as follows:

"La Calle Real del Norte

An 18th-century trail connecting the Indian villages of the Nacog- doche and Nasoni Indians.

Travelled by Spanish missionaries, soldiers and settlers, French traders and American filibusters before Anglo- American colonists came to make Texas their home

Erected by
the State of Texas
1936"

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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