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Marker Text: ​Most famous camping ground on Presidio Road. Earliest route between Texas and Coahuila. Many legends center about the lake. Here in 1876 Texas Rangers killed a band of desperadoes. (1936)

Marker No: 5943

Gray Granite 1936 Centennial Marker

Geographic: 28.772211,-99.848663

Location: ​from Crystal City, take Highway 83, about 1.9 miles north