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

The Daughters of the American Revolution who set this stone had organized in Texas in 1900 with five chapters, and by 1992 they counted 17,000 members in 184 chapters. Membership requires descent from someone who aided the cause of American independence. Besides marking the Old San Antonio Road with granite stones along its length, the Texas Society raised money for plasma drives, the Red Cross and the USO in World War II, took part in the Texas Centennial, and published citizenship manuals in eighteen languages for immigrants seeking naturalization.

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

Worth the stop nearby

• Gruene Historic District — 6.7 mi
  A cotton town on the Guadalupe that the boll weevil emptied, rescued in the 1970s by a kayaking architecture student, with a dance hall that says it has never closed.
• Spring Lake and the Meadows Center — 8.5 mi
  The headsprings of the San Marcos River, among the longest-inhabited places in North America, once an amusement park with a swimming pig and now seen from glass-bottom boats.
• Sophienburg Museum and Archives — 9.4 mi
  The hilltop where Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels raised the Adelsverein's headquarters in 1845, now the museum and archive of the German colony that became New Braunfels.
• Natural Bridge Caverns — 21 mi
  The largest known cavern in Texas, found in 1960 by four college cavers under a ranch family's land, entered beneath a 60-foot limestone bridge and still growing.

More markers nearby

• Riley's Tavern — 1.0 mi
• King's Highway - Camino Real - Old San Antonio Road — 3.1 mi
• Pitts Cemetery — 3.3 mi
• Stringtown — 3.5 mi