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

The town beside this stone grew from a railroad water tower. The Houston and Texas Central built through in 1872 and named the stop for Norman Paige, the civil engineer who laid out its route; a post office followed in 1874, and in 1876 the station moved three miles east to where Paige stands now. Fedor Soder arrived in 1877, built a store and a gin and sold lots to other Germans. By 1886 Paige had about 500 people, shipping cotton, cordwood, butter and eggs, with a pickle factory, a creamery and a broom factory.

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

• Texas Wendish Heritage Museum — 10 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.
• Bastrop State Park — 12 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.
• Lake Somerville State Park and Trailway — 24 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.

More markers nearby

• Grassyville Cemetery — 5.7 mi
• McDade — 9.2 mi
• Three Oaks (Goerlitz) Cemetery — 11 mi
• Camp Swift — 12 mi