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	Burleson County
		The San Antonio Prairie, a strip of open grassland one to four miles in width stretching through the middle of the county from southwest to northeast, features dark, loamy to clayey, flland soils with stiff clayey subsoils.
		The Old San Antonio Road was specified as the northern boundary of the colony, yet before the mid-1830s only a handful of settlers had actually taken up residence in the territory south of the road and north of Yegua Creek.
		In 1840 the area of the present county south of the Old San Antonio Road was transferred from Washington to Milam County.
	www.gwrra-txw.org /triplog/texascourthouses/burleson.html (6236 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Texas
		In 1703 the Mission San Francisco de Solano was founded on the Rio Grande by Franciscans from Queretaro; afterwards this mission was moved in 1708 or 1709 to the interior of Texas and called San Ildefonso; again in 1710 or later (1713) it was moved back to the Rio Grande and called San José.
		San Saba Mission, on the San Saba River, in what is now Menard County, was founded in 1734 by a company of priests from Santa Fe, among the Indios Bravos (Wild Indians)–the Apaches and Comanches, for the humane reason of the priests that it was better to civilize than to kill them.
		The Diocese of San Antonio shows no change in the statistics given under the title except that the Redemptorist Order has taken charge of the parish of St. Gerard Majella in the city of San Antonio, where a new church and school are now being erected.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14543a.htm (8581 words)

	Interesting Facts About Bastrop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The route of the Camino Real of Old San Antonio Road originated from a path where hundreds of years before the wild beasts and Red Men crossed the river, rested in the shade of the trees and climbed the hills where Bastrop now stands.
		Miguel Areiniega was appointed Commissioner of the Colony in 1830, and on June 8, 1832, formally established the town of Bastrop at the crossing of the San Antonio Road on the Colorado River.
		The house was on the bank of the Colorado Piver near the old crossing on the Colorado River.
	www.bastroptxusa.com /facts.htm (486 words)

	History
		That mission, San Antonio de Valero, on the San Antonio River, was established in 1718 by Franciscan Missionary Fray Antonio San Beunaventura Olivares.
		Kings Highway, Camino Real, Old San Antonio Road, marked by the Daughters of the American Revolution and the State of Texas, A.D. In 1929, the Texas Legislature declared the Zivley surveyed Old San Antonio Road to be one of the Historic Trails of Texas.
		These surveys were either bounded on one side by the old road, or if they crossed it the course and distance from the nearest corner to the said crossing was in most instances stated, so that the relocation of the road in that part of the State was only a question of time and labor.
	www.texandesigns.com /kingshwy/history.htm (6618 words)

	Texas article - Texas Flag Texas State nickname Other U.S. States Capital Austin Largest - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		San Jacinto, etc. line the rim of Rotunda of the Capitol in Austin.
		Led by Sam Houston, the Texians won their independence in one of the most decisive battles in history when they defeated the Mexican forces of Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto.
		In 1926 San Antonio had the largest population of any city in Texas with over 120,000 people.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Texas (2300 words)

	Who Will Go With Old Ben Milam Into San Antonio?
		San Antonio and Texas owe much to this almost unknown helper of Texas freedom, as we shall see later.
		This was an excellent position to defend; lying with the bend of the river on its west, it presented a sharp bluff to the open plain to the east and south.
		They were to from at the old mill at three o'clock the next morning with the men who had volunteered, while Burleson was to hold the rest as a reserve.
	www.tamu.edu /ccbn/dewitt/milamben.htm (5969 words)

	Hays County, Texas History
		San Xavier Mission and San Francisco Xavier Presidio were located briefly at the site in 1755-56, but no permanent settlement was attempted until 1807, when some eighty persons were moved to the Old San Antonio Road crossing of the San Marcos River.
		County organization and the designation of San Marcos as county seat gave impetus to settlement; the population grew from 387 in 1850 to 2,126 in 1860.
		In addition to the county seat, San Marcos, which had a population of 28,743 in 1990, other county population centers are Wimberley (1990 population, 2,403) Kyle (2,225), Buda (1,795), Dripping Springs (1,033), and Hays (252).
	www.reynoldsrecords.com /texas/hays_history.html (1654 words)

	Boerne commercial real estate San Antonio Texas real estate news Local - LaCantera - Toyota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		SAN ANTONIO (census.gov, txsdc.utsa.edu) - Texas counties that Nationally made the top 100 in percentage growth were Williamson (24), Collin (34), Hays (65), Montgomery (66), Denton (68), Comal (83) and Kendall County [Boerne, Texas] (89).
		San Antonio had an estimated 1,214,725 residents as of July 1, 2003, and Dallas had 1,208,308.
		San Antonio and Houston are attracting both domestic and international immigrants.
	www.geocities.com /InvestmentRealEstate_2000/pga_golf_village.html (3182 words)

	San Antonio Attractions Guide - Complete List of Attractions in San Antonio
		Located on a bend of the the San Antonio River at foot of King William is one of the oldest historic districts in Texas.
		The chain of missions established along the San Antonio River in the 18th century are reminders of one of Spain’s most successful attempts to extend its New World dominion from Mexico.
		At the headwaters of the San Antonio River, the zoo encompasses 35 landscaped acres.
	www.sanantoniocvb.com /visitors/things_attra.asp (2815 words)

	COUNTY INVENTORY
		The San Antonio road, from the crossing on the Navasota to Robbins’ Ferry on the Trinity, was choked with women and children and all the livestock they could drive, fleeing before the advance of Santa Anna’s army.
		Although a large number of the early settlers of Robertson County were from cotton-growing States, hunting, and the cutting of timber north of the San Antonio Road seem to have been the principal occupations of the earliest settlers.
		Old Franklin, established as the county seat because the site was near the center of the county, yielded the court-house to Wheelock, which was on the San Antonio Road.
	www.rootsweb.com /~txrober2/COUNTYINVENTORY.htm (7689 words)

	El Camino East/West Corridor
		The Old San Antonio Road, one of the better known of these changing routes, was used from about 1795 to 1850 as the primary migration route from the east to what is now Texas.
		That road generally followed the route of the earlier Camino Pita to a point east of the Frio River, a short distance west of San Antonio, where the two roads diverged (see map: U.S. Portion of EI Camino Real de los Tejas).
		Segments of the roads were used by indigenous people when the first Spaniards followed them to cross the Rio Grande and settle in Texas, and the roads were used intermittently and in changing patterns over the years.
	elcaminocorridor.org /history.htm (1634 words)

	A Royal Road Trip By Angela Fox
		The road, in fact, isn’t one road at all, but a 2,580-mile network of trails winding from the Rio Grande through San Antonio and eastern Texas to Natchitoches in Louisiana.
		We drive in from Louisiana where the road is called Louisiana Highway 6 but, as we pass over the bridge spanning Toledo Bend Reservoir, we enter Texas and the road becomes Texas Highway 21.
		Our first stop is the San Augustine Civic and Tourism Center, where we pick up information on area lodging, dining and attractions and admire the unusual and beautiful gold-leaf paintings depicting local history that adorn the center’s interior walls.
	travellady.com /Issues/November06/3658RoyalRoad.htm (1927 words)

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		San Augustine, which began as a village straddling El Camino Real, was the first settlement of consequence on the road after crossing the Sabine River into Texas.
		San Augustine County residents continue to experience the impact of the courthouse and its grounds by using the site for community and countywide events, attracting the local populace and tourists to Veterans’ Day services, annual festivals such as Sassafras and Pinefest, and antique car and tractor shows.
		One of the major functions of the county government is the building and maintenance of county roads and bridges in San Augustine County; the commissioners are known as road commissioners.
	www.thc.state.tx.us /courthouses/courthousedocs/SanAugustineEligibilityStatement.doc (825 words)

	Pecos County,Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Fort Stockton, the county seat of Pecos County, is on Interstate Highway 10, U.S. highways 67, 290, and 385, and the Santa Fe Railroad, 329 miles northwest of San Antonio and 245 miles east of El Paso.
		Comanche Springs was a favorite rest stop on the Comanche Trail to Chihuahua, the Old San Antonio Road, the Butterfield Overland Mail route, and the San Antonio-Chihuahua freight-wagon road.
		San Antonio entrepreneurs, convinced that the water from Comanche and nearby Leon springs could be used for irrigation, purchased large tracts of land for agricultural development.
	www.co.pecos.tx.us /fortstockton.html (447 words)

	Madison County, Texas History
		The Old San Antonio Road, which forms a major portion of the county's northern boundary, continued through Bastrop on its way from Nacogdoches to San Antonio.
		A Spanish settlement was established in Madison County in 1774, on the banks of the Trinity at the crossing of the two Spanish roads.
		Rogers Prairie, on the Old San Antonio Road, was settled in 1835 by Robert Rogers, who had received a land grant from the Mexican government.
	www.reynoldsrecords.com /texas/madison_history.html (2511 words)

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		From the Old San Antonio Road this trail went southwest through an Alabama village on the Angelina River near the junction of this river and Attoyac Bayou, and then crossed the Neches River at the Spanishdesignated "pass to the south," where Fort Terán was constructed in 1831.
		It was an important middle road between the betterknown and Spanishpatrolled Atascosito Roadqv along the Texas coast and the Old San Antonio Roadqv farther inland.
		Jared E. Groce,qv one of the Old Three Hundredqv colonists, moved to Texas in 1821 and established a settlement in the area that is now Waller County at the crossing of the Coushatta Trace and the Brazos River.
	www.angelfire.com /tx/TCGS/trace1.html (1631 words)

	About Our County
		Though the main route of the Old San Antonio Roadqv passed along what is now the southern boundary of the county, the Spanish failed to establish permanent settlements there; Bucareli,qv on the Trinity River in neighboring Madison County, founded in 1774, was the nearest the Spanish came to settling Leon County.
		The first county seat, Leona, on the southern boundary near the Old San Antonio Road, was picked in 1846.
		The decade preceding the Civil Warqv was a period of rapid population growth; between 1850 and 1860 the number of settlers grew from 1,946 to 6,781.
	lcfb.s5.com /about.html (3219 words)

	San Antonio News
		SAN ANTONIO, A New Braunfels teenager was shot early Tuesday while riding in the back of a car on the south side of San Antonio.
		Lisa Anna Caisse of San Antonio, Texas, and Travis Shane Springs of Staples are proud to announce their engagement and upcoming marriage.
		A 20-year-old Kerrville man was airlifted to a San Antonio hospital Thursday night after being beaten in the head with a ball-peen hammer.
	rss.topix.net /city/san-antonio-tx (1206 words)

	Hazardous Business - The Railroads Come to Texas - Page 1 - Texas State Library
		During the days of Spanish colonization, the major road for trade and freight was the Old San Antonio Road, also known as the King’s Highway or the Camino Real.
		The Old San Antonio Road and other Spanish roads were not highways or even roads in the modern sense.
		The San Antonio and San Diego stage line was one of the largest and most successful in the United States.
	www.tsl.state.tx.us /exhibits/railroad/beginnings/page1.html (678 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Although generally thought of as a single road, it may be more accurate to describe the Old San Antonio Road as a network of trails, with different routes used at different times.
		During the course of the eighteenth century the route between the Rio Grande and San Antonio was gradually shifted southeastward, probably as a result of the Apache and Comanche threat to Spanish travelers.
		the road served as a significant route for transportation of cotton from eastern Texas to San Antonio to Laredo and on to Mexico.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/OO/exo4.html (1324 words)

	Harrison & McCulloch Stage Stop; Selma, Bexar County, Texas History
		Roads that were forged as early Spanish trails, such as the El Camino Real, later developed into main stage route arteries running through the heart of Central Texas.
		The Old San Antonio Road (also known as El Camino Real by the early Spanish missionaries) ran through the Cibolo Valley just to the west of Selma on what is now Nacogdoches Road.
		Passengers from Austin, Gonzales, San Antonio, New Braunfels and the other inland towns could arrive at Indianola in the morning and be assured of departure on steamers leaving in the evening.
	texas.i-found-it.net /HarrisonStageStop.html (4795 words)

	Old Spanish Trail Visitors Guide - San Antonio, TX
		The Old Spanish Trail is a paved auto highway from Florida to California that crosses 67 counties and 8 states across the Southern border of the United States.
		In the 1920s, San Antonio was the center of the Old Spanish Trail Association (OST), an organization that focused on paving and promoting the Old Spanish Trail.
		San Antonio is preparing for the centennial celebration by working on revitalizing the Old Spanish Trail through Bexar County.
	www.sanantoniocvb.com /old_spanish_trail.asp (261 words)

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	Bastrop County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Baron de Bastrop, acting in behalf of Moses Austin, convinced the Ayuntamiento of San Antonio to allow Austin to establish a colony of 300 families in Texas.
		Austin applied to the Governor of Coahuila and Texas to establish a new colony north of the Old San Antonio Road and a contract was ratified on November 20, 1827.
		James Gotier constructed the road and it became known as the Gotier Trace.
	www.texasindependencetrail.org /bastrop_county.htm (707 words)

	Comfort - Sisterdal - Luckenbach - Fredericksburg Loop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Old San Antonio Road dead-ends into US 290.
		There will be heavy traffic on this road, but it slows down by the time the shoulder disappears and you enter town.
		It is the first road to the left after you pass Boos Lane.
	www.sabikerides.com /ComfortSisLucFred.html (486 words)

	North Loop (San Antonio, TX) News
		San Antonio police officers said two teens tried to pull off a bold carjacking on the city's north side as their victim was leaving the golf course.
		San Antonio is on the cusp of exploding economic activity, Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff said Monday, and to keep it going the city needs good roads and bus service.
		Weekend bus bridges and traffic detours will be in effect two weekends this month in Downtown San Jose as VTA replaces worn and noisy light rail track at the intersection of First and San Carlos streets.
	www.topix.net /city/san-antonio-tx-north-loop (643 words)

	Texas Old San Antonio Road Preservation Commission: An Inventory of Records at the Texas State Archives, 1979, ...
		Nancy Kenmotsu of the Texas Historical Commission and reflect her activities on behalf of the Old San Antonio Road Preservation Commission, especially her role as meeting coordinator for the commission and as organizer of the commission's caravan tours of the Old San Antonio Road in 1991 and 1992.
		The 71st Legislature, First Called Session, 1989, created the Old San Antonio Road Preservation Commission, (Senate Concurrent Resolution 2), to coordinate a year-long observance in 1991 of the 300th anniversary of the founding of the state's oldest thoroughfare established by Europeans and to suggest ways of preserving the history of the road.
		Nancy Kenmotsu, served as coordinator for all meetings of the commission, coordinated and conducted a Caravan of the commission along the route of the Old San Antonio Road (OSR) in April 1991, promoted the OSR at conferences and through a display in the Capitol Rotunda, and produced press releases for various events in local communities.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/tslac/10198/10198-P.html (759 words)

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