Kings Highway
N 30° 15.769 W 096° 58.454
14R E 694883 N 3349644
#58 Kings Highway DAR pink granite marker is along a fence row at the corner of a private road entrance accessed from SH-21. It is about 0.8 mile from CR 1624 when driving southwest on SH-21 from Lincoln toward Manheim, TX.
Waymark Code: WMZCMR
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/20/2018
Views: 3
The trail known throughout Texas as the Kings Highway can also be called the El Camino Real, El Camino Real de los Tejas, Old San Antonio Road (OSR), and Royal Road. The Kings Highway, or El Camino Real de los Tejas, is really a series of trails that meandered and shifted over time as needs changed for the travelers. However, it stayed within a generally consistent direction and overall location. While other old mission trails in other states are also referred to as El Camino Real, this marker is in the context of the path connecting Mexico City to what is now Natchitoches, Louisiana. Within Texas, a few other labels are sometimes used when referencing the El Camino Real, such as the San Antonio to Nacogdoches Road; or, from during the Civil War era, the Camino Arriba.
The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) set these pink granite markers along a major portion of the El Camino Real de los Tejas in 1918, in conjunction with the State of Texas funding the cost of the markers. Many still exist today and are still visible along State Highway 21 and the State Highway OSR which are both documented as covering large portions of the El Camino Real de los Tejas trails. The Texas legislature declared the Old San Antonio Road as a Texas Historical Trail and more recently this trail was designated as a National Historic Trail.
This #58 marker does *not* have a designated Texas Historical Commission Atlas number for Lee County Texas historical markers. Lee County has this marker plus six other twin sister markers are still extant along SH-21. The DAR markers involved are #55, #56, #57, #57B, #58, #59; and, the Lee County officials claim that Kings Highway marker #60 is also within Lee County. I'll go along with calling all seven markers as being in Lee County. Funny thing is, the county only assigned numbers to five of the seven Kings Highway markers!
When driving along SH-21 through Lincoln, TX toward Manheim, TX , this marker #57 is on the right side of the highway about 0.8 mile from CR 1624. The marker is near a fence row at the corner of a private road entrance gate. A rusty pole with a rusty "Lee County 1836 - 1936" sign is directly behind the Kings Hwy marker. This may help you see it coming up to it.
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