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El Camino Real de los Tejas routes in Spanish Texas. Alonso de León, Spanish governor of Coahuila, established the corridor for what became El Camino Real de Tierra Afuera in multiple expeditions to East Texas between 1686 and 1690 to find and destroy a French fort near Lavaca Bay, [2] established by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle on what de León considered to be Spanish lands.
SAN AUGUSTINE, Texas — On the way to this East Texas town, I learned three crucial things about El Camino Real de los Tejas from Chris Talbot, a Stephen F. Austin University professor and backer ...
In the future, El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail Association will manage research and public access to the landmark. GAUSE, Texas — Almost exactly 140 years after the Tonkawa ...
On October 18, 2004, President Bush signed a bill designating The El Camino Real de Los Tejas, of which the Old San Antonio Road is part, a National Historic Trail. The Texas Legislature is considering a bill that would give the Texas Historical Commission authority to oversee the development and administration of El Camino Real de los Tejas ...
The park contains an original segment of the El Camino Real de los Tejas. This historic route ran from Natchitoches, Louisiana to San Antonio. It was the predominant overland route across Texas for several centuries. The Rice Family Log Home within the park served as an inn along this route for travelers.
The former Los Adaes settlers chose to move farther east to the old mission of Nacogdoches, where they founded the town of the same name. The new town quickly became a waystation for contraband. [24] The site of Los Adaes was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1986. [2] [26] It is a site on the El Camino Real de los Tejas National ...
El Camino Real de los Tejas. Again, I'll return to this subject in a future column, but the area around Nacogdoches is a target-rich environment for the Spanish royal road that grew out of Native ...
El Camino Real de Chiapas, connecting the colonial cities of Chiapa de Corzo, México with Antigua Guatemala; see San Andrés Sajcabajá; El Camino Real de los Tejas, a Spanish mission trail running through Texas and into Louisiana; El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, a historical road that went from Mexico City to Santa Fe, New Mexico