King's Highway - Camino Real - Old San Antonio Road

The nearest town to this stone is Lincoln, about three miles southwest, named for John A. Lincoln, a circuit rider who lived on a nearby farm and led revivals in the area. It had a post office from 1886, and for a time it served as the shipping point for stores in Dime Box, Fedor and Manheim. By 1890 it had two cotton gins, a corn and saw mill, a general store and a Lutheran church. Lincoln reached about 350 people and eleven businesses in 1940, then declined after the war; the Giddings district absorbed its school in 1945.

What the plaque says

King's Highway - Camino Real - Old San Antonio Road 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

Worth the stop nearby

• Lake Somerville State Park and Trailway — 13 mi
  Two 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.
• Texas Wendish Heritage Museum — 15 mi
  A 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.
• Round Top and Festival Hill — 23 mi
  A 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.
• Bastrop State Park — 26 mi
  The 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.

More markers nearby

• Old Evergreen Tree — 3.9 mi
• St. John Lutheran Church — 4.5 mi
• Old Dime Box — 5.0 mi
• Indian Camp Branch — 6.9 mi