Site of
Camino Real
​(The Old San Antonio Road)

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Marker Text: Great thoroughfare of early Texas. Following ancient Indian and buffalo paths, sometimes on same course as 1691 "Trail of the Padres", stretches 1,000 miles from Saltillo, Mexico, to present Louisiana. Highway for explorers, traders, smugglers, adventurers, settlers, armies. Was surveyed about 1800 and given name of "King's Highway". Here, as in some other areas, the modern highway follows historic El Camino Real. Also, in this particular area, El Camino Real marked boundary between the major early 19th century colonies of Stephen F. Austin and Sterling C. Robertson. (1968)

Marker No: 7570

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 30.414228,-96.812569

Location: from Caldwell, take SH 21 about 9.4 miles west to marker in Roadside Park on south side of road