El Camino Real -- DAR Marker No. 73, SH 21 at San Marcos Hays Co. Airport, San Marcos TX
N 29° 54.150 W 097° 52.091
14R E 609271 N 3308519
No. 73 of 128 pink granite El Camino Real markers placed by the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1918 stands on the route of the Old San Antonio Road at SH 21 at San Marcos Hays Co. Airport, San Marcos TX
Waymark Code: WMXP8B
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/06/2018
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This pink granite DAR marker was placed in 1918 as a statewide project by the Daughters of the American Revolution to mark the route of the Old San Antonio Road.
The marker is located along SH 21 at the San Marcos Hays Co. Airport, San Marcos TX.
The marker reads as follows:
"KING'S HIGHWAY
CAMINO REAL
Old San Antonio Road
Marked by the
Daughters of the
American Revolution
and the State of Texas
A. D. 1918"
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."