El Camino Real - New Madrid, Missouri
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N 36° 35.315 W 089° 31.992
16S E 273375 N 4052221
This brown granite marker is located at the corner of Kingshighway and Scott Avenue in New Madrid, Missouri.
Waymark Code: WMY4WT
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 04/22/2018
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Text of the marker, which is a brown granite vertical marker:
"El Camino Real
New Madrid
Cape Girardeau
Ste. Genevieve
St. Louis
Erected By The
Missouri Daughters
Of The American
Revolution
A.D. 1915"
From the State Historical Society of Missouri - (
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"Place name: King's Highway
Description: A puiblic road established in 1789 following an old Indian trail through New Madrid County northward through Cape Girardeau and Perry Counties and on to St. Louis. It was designated as the public road and named El Camino Real, the King's Highway, by Colonel George Morgan, who planned New Madrid (for which see former study by this writer), in honor of King Charles IV, King of Spain 1788-1808. The French called the road Le Chemin du Roi. U.S. Highway 61 follows the general course of the old highway and the D.A.R. have erected suitable markers along the trail. (Houck II 150-154)
Source: Hamlett, Mayme L. "Place Names Of Six Southeast Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1938."