El Camino Real _ The Old San Antonio Road

Normangee is a railroad town that stepped off the road. Rogers Prairie, two miles east on the Old San Antonio Road, grew around a blockhouse of 1840, with a post office from 1874 and a lodge from 1881. When the Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway passed two miles west in 1906, the post office moved, and local accounts say buildings rolled to the new site on logs. The town took the name of Judge Norman G. Kittrell. Split by the Madison and Leon county line, it voted away its incorporation in 1917 and restored it in 1919.

What the plaque says

El Camino Real _ The Old San Antonio Road First blazed in 1691 by Captain Don Domingo Teran de los Rios first provincial governor of Texas in an expedition officially directed by Father Fray Damian Massanet O-F-M apostolic missionary and explorer in Texas. The general route was northeast from the Rio Grande to the San Antonio River thence across the Guadalupe, San Marcos, Colorado, Brazos, and Trinity rivers to the missions in east Texas. Other expeditions taking the same route: Espinosa-Olivares-Aguirre in 1709 - - St. Denis in 1714 - - Ramon in 1716 - - Alarcon in 1718 - - Marquis of Aguayo in 1720 - - Moses Austin in 1820 - - The Republic of Texas officially made this road a boundary between a number of empresarial land grants. Normangee - Home of the Old San Antonio Road Association. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Boggy State Park — 14 mi
  A 1,847-acre park in Leon County named for a settlers' palisade of 1840, with a 15-acre lake, short trails and the story of Tennessee farmers, the Keechi and a Ranger captain.

More markers nearby

• Rogers Prairie — 1.8 mi
• Willowhole Cemetery — 10.0 mi
• Wm. B. Middleton — 12 mi
• CCC Camp Site — 12 mi