King's Highway - Camino Real - Old San Antonio Road
Giddings, Lee County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Marked by the Daughters of the American Revolution and the State of Texas A. D. 1918
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
This marker commemorates the King's Highway, or El Camino Real de los Tejas—the Spanish royal road later known as the Old San Antonio Road—that linked colonial mission and settlement across Texas. The Daughters of the American Revolution, working with the State of Texas, marked its course with a series of granite monuments in 1918. The historic route was among the earliest overland thoroughfares connecting the region's far-flung communities.
Why it matters
El Camino Real was the lifeline of Spanish Texas, and its early-20th-century marking reflects a national movement to preserve the physical traces of America's colonial past.
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