El Camino Real de los Tejas --Samuel Cartmill Hiroms homesite, SH 21 E of Austonio TX - National Scenic Byways on Waymarking.com

This state historical marker stands along ghe Texas SG 21, the El Camino Real, in Houston Co. TX. It preserves the memory of the homesite of Samuel Cartmill Hiroms, whose family was one of the "Old 300", who came down El Camino Real with Stephen F. Austin to settle in Texas in 1823.

The marker reads as follows:

"Homesite of Samuel Cartmill Hiroms

One of the community's pioneer settlers, Samuel Cartmill Hiroms (1836-1920) was born in Polk County. His parents were among Stephen F. Austin's "Old Three Hundred" colonists. Hiroms taught school and served as Polk County surveyor. He served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War (1861-1865). After his first wife died, he married Emily Ann Johnston (1853-1948) in 1869 and moved his family to Houston County. In 1878 Hiroms settled here in the Creek community, which later became Austinio. He received land for his teaching services and was an early leader in the Methodist church. (1978)"

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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