King's Highway DAR Marker #23 -- SH 21 at Neches River, Cherokee Co., TX, USA
N 31° 34.570 W 095° 10.111
15R E 294213 N 3495498
No. 23 of 118 pink granite markers erected by the Texas Society of the Daughters of The American Revolution and the State of Texas along the route of the Old Spanish Road from the Louisiana border to the Mexican border
Waymark Code: WM180NX
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/04/2023
Views: 1
This DAR marker is located along TX SH 21 at the Neches River, Cherokee Co. TX.
One of the series of El Camino Real granite markers erected as part of a historic preservation project of the Texas Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the State of Texas, undertaken to survey and mark the historic route of the Old San Antonio Road AKA King’s Highway or El Camino Real, from Louisiana to the Rio Grande. The DAR placed pink granite makers along the road, each one roughly the same, about 5 miles apart, for the length of the road in Texas.
From the Texas Historical Commission: (
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"History of State of Texas Historical Markers
The State of Texas first commemorated a historical site in 1856 by contributing to marking graves at the San Jacinto battleground. In 1858, the Legislature bought an existing Alamo monument, built in 1841 with stones gathered from the battle site. William Nangle and Joseph Cox of San Antonio designed the ten-foot high pyramid on a square pedestal to be portable, and it traveled to Houston, New Orleans and Austin. After the state acquired the monument it was moved to the Capitol, and ultimately destroyed in the 1881 fire that razed that building.
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From 1915-18, the State of Texas and the Daughters of the American Revolution together placed 123 pink granite markers about every five miles along the King’s Highway, also known as Camino Real or Old San Antonio Road, the trail blazed in 1690 by Alonso de Leon. Surveyor V. N. Zively mapped the route through south, central and east Texas. Most of these markers are still intact."