​El Camino Real
The Old
​San Antonio Road

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Marker Text: ​ First blazed in 1681 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 this general route was northeast from the Rio Grande to the San Antonio River, Thence across the San Marcos, Colorado, Brazos and Trinity Rivers to the missions in east Texas. Other expeditions taking the same route Espinosa Olivares Aguirre in 1709, St. Dennis in 1714, Ramon in 1716, Massanet 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 empresartal land grants 
     Normangee Home of Old San Antonio Road Association. (1936) 

Marker No: 9621

Pink Granite Centennial Marker 

Geographic: 31.025961, -96.115601

Location: Just west of the junction of FM 39 and Old Spanish Road