Historical Marker
King's Highway - Camino Real - Old San Antonio Road
Giddings, Lee County · Texas
Erected 1918
This 1918 granite shares the county line with a much newer road marker. In 1995 the Legislature named U.S. 290 from Interstate 35 to State Highway 21, and Highway 21 from there to State Highway 6, the Presidential Corridor, for the route linking the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in Austin with the George H. W. Bush Library in College Station. The act, signed April 12, 1995 and effective at once, told the Department of Transportation to set markers at each end and at sites it chose, and let it accept donations to pay for them.
What the plaque says
King's Highway - Camino Real - Old San Antonio Road Marked by the Daughters of the American Revolution and the State of Texas A. D. 1918
Where it stands
30.22965, -97.07358 · Directions
Worth the stop nearby
- Texas Wendish Heritage Museum — 9.4 miA museum at Serbin of the Wends, a Slavic people from Lusatia whose congregation of nearly 600 crossed on the Ben Nevis in 1854, losing seventy-three to cholera on the way.
- Bastrop State Park — 15 miThe westernmost loblolly pines in the United States, cut off from the East Texas forest by a hundred miles of post oak, burned almost entirely in 2011 and growing back.
- Lake Somerville State Park and Trailway — 21 miTwo park units on an 11,000-acre lake between Austin and College Station, joined by a thirteen-mile trailway for hikers, cyclists and riders with primitive camps along the way.
- Round Top and Festival Hill — 25 miA German village on the old La Bahía Road, named for a house tower, with an 1867 stone church, a Fourth of July kept since 1851 and a concert hall a pianist built without blueprints.