Kings Highway
N 30° 06.641 W 097° 18.910
14R E 662329 N 3332247
#64 Kings Highway DAR pink granite marker is on the corner of Chestnut Street (the city street name of SH-21/SH-150) and Hill Street in the historical district of the city of Bastrop, TX.
Waymark Code: WMZCQD
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/20/2018
Views: 6
The trail known throughout Texas as the Kings Highway can also be called the El Camino Real, El Camino Real de los Tejas, Old San Antonio Road (OSR), and Royal Road. The Kings Highway, or El Camino Real de los Tejas, is really a series of trails that meandered and shifted over time as needs changed for the travelers. However, it stayed within a generally consistent direction and overall location. While other old mission trails in other states are also referred to as El Camino Real, this marker is in the context of the path connecting Mexico City to what is now Natchitoches, Louisiana. Within Texas, a few other labels are sometimes used when referencing the El Camino Real, such as the San Antonio to Nacogdoches Road; or, from during the Civil War era, the Camino Arriba.
The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) set these pink granite markers along a major portion of the El Camino Real de los Tejas in 1918, in conjunction with the State of Texas funding the cost of the markers. Many still exist today and are still visible along State Highway 21 and the State Highway OSR which are both documented as covering large portions of the El Camino Real de los Tejas trails. The Texas legislature declared the Old San Antonio Road as a Texas Historical Trail and more recently this trail was designated as a National Historic Trail.
This marker is one that is not yet listed in Texas Historical Commission Atlas for Bastrop County. This marker plus seven other twin sister markers still extant along SH-21 within Bastrop County (DAR markers #60, #61, #62, #63, #64, #65, #66 and #67). Only one of these Kings Highway markers (#61) have been recorded and numbered in the THC Atlas. There is one missing marker (#68) within Bastrop County that is classified as "lost" by both the DAR and the TexasCounties.net.
This pink granite Kings Highway #64 marker is located on Chestnut Street, which is the city street name for SH-21 and SH-150 as they join together and pass through the residential historic district of the city of Bastrop, TX. This #64. More specifically, this marker is at the corner of Chestnut Street and Hill Street and is facing toward the intersection from the sidewalk in which it is placed.
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