San Antonio
Bexar County, Texas
29 30.908' N 98 27.217' W
Directions: Start at the intersection of Lindenwood Drive and Nacogdoches Road. Go 100 yards north on Lindenwood Road. The marker is on the left (west) side of the road about 100 yards from the road.

Text: The main thoroughfare of early Texas, The Camino Real, or quot;King's Highwayquot;, followed ancient Indian and buffalo trail. It stretched 1,000 miles from Mexico to present Louisiana. Domingo Teran de los Rios, first Governor of Texas, blessed the central section of the road in 1691. Called the quot;Trail of the Padresquot;, it linked Monclova, Mexico, with the Spanish Missions of East Texas. Over the centuries, priests, soldiers, traders, and settlers used the Camino Real. The French adventurer T. Denis probably traveled the road from Lousiana to the Rio Grande in 1714. San Antonio was a major stop on this frontier highway. Moses Austin followed the Camino Real to San Antonio in 1820 seeking colonization rights from Spain. Many Anglo-American settlers called it the quot;old San Antonio Roadquot;. It joined this city with Nacogdoches, San Augistine, and other East Texas Settlements. In 1915 the Texas Legislature appropriated $5,000 to mark the historic roadway across the state. The Daughters of the American Revolution, along with other patriotic groups, endorsed the project. V.N. Zivley surveyed the route and indicated the spacing for granite markers every five miles. Today many modern highways follow the path of the Camino Real.