El Camino Real de los Tejas -- Normangee, TX
N 31° 01.503 W 096° 06.909
14R E 775388 N 3435953
A pink granite monument erected during the centennial of the State of Texas in 1936 preserves the history of this ancient road.
Waymark Code: WMXM9E
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/28/2018
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This tall pink granite Centennial Monument to the importance of the El Camino Real stands just west of the intersection of the OSR highway (the only non-numbered highway in Texas, OSR for Old San Antonio Road) and the Farm to Market road 39 near downtown Normangee TX. The monument reads as follows:
"EL CAMINO REAL
THE OLD SAN ANTONIO ROAD
First blazed in 1691 by Captain Don domingo Teran De Los Rios first provincial governor of Texas. In an expedition officially directed by Father Fray damian Massanet O-F-M Apostolic Missionary and explorer in Texas. the general route was northeast from the Rio Grande to the San Antonio River thence across the Guadalupe, San Marcos, Colorado, Brazos, and Trinity Rivers to the missions in east Texas. Other expeditions taking the same route: Espinosa Olivares Aquirre in 1709, St. Denis in 1714, Ramon in 1716, Alarcon in 1718, marquis of Aguayo in 1720, Moses Austin in 1820. The Republic of Texas Officially made this road a boundary between a number of empresarial land grants.
Normangee - Home of the Old San Antonio Road Association.
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. (
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"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."