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

This granite stands where the old road met the Yegua creeks, a watershed with a long record of floods. East Yegua Creek rises near Rockdale and joins Middle Yegua on the Burleson-Lee line to form Yegua Creek, which runs east to the Brazos. Floods struck the watershed in forty-three of the forty-six years from 1912 to 1958. The Corps of Engineers began Somerville Dam in 1962 and finished it by 1967; the lake, dedicated May 17, 1968, covers about 11,160 acres at normal level and takes its name from railroad president Albert Somerville.

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 — 11 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 — 22 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 — 25 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.

More markers nearby

• Site of Camino Real — 0.8 mi
• An Arm of The Chisholm Cattle Trail — 2.5 mi
• Old Dime Box — 3.8 mi
• Deanville — 4.3 mi