It is located adjacent to where the Camino Real once ran in Cherokee County, Texas. Houston Chronicle file photo Show More Show Less 4 of13 Caddo Mounds State Historic Park is a site that was once a Caddo Indian village and ceremonial center. El Camino Real is the Spanish colonial route between missions on the Mexican border and East Texas. William Luther / San Antonio Express-News Show More Show Less 3 of13 Highway 21 runs along what was the El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail in San Augustine, Texas. Smith said he has walked every major through-hike in the country, including the Pacific Crest and Appalachian trails, and was expanding to historic trails. 4, 2012, along the Mission Trail part of the larger El Camino Real that runs from Natchitoches, La., to Eagle Pass. Terry Scott Bertling / San Antonio Express-News Show More Show Less 2 of13 Framed by an entrance ot San Jose Burial Park, Bart Smith walks Jan. Spanish spelled the word Taysha, Tejas, which became, Texas.1 of13 A sign points to the original route for the Camino Real at Nacogdoches and Naco Perrin in North San Antonio. ~National Parks Service, El Camino Real Del Los Tejas at, ĭid you know that Texas comes from the Spanish transliteration of the Caddo word for friend or ally, taysha. Spanish, Mexican, French, American, Black, and American Indian travelers along El Camino Real de los Tejas created a mix of traditions, laws, and cultures that is reflected in the people, landscapes, place names, languages, music, and arts of Texas and Louisiana today.” Linking a variety of cultural and linguistic groups, the royal road served as an agent for cultural diffusion, biological exchange, and communication and as a conduit for exploration, trade, migration, settlement, and livestock drives. Settlers, missionaries, soldiers, servants, and indigenous allies followed various roads and trails along the 2,500 miles of this route to populate the settlements, missions, and presidios of eastern Texas and northwestern Louisiana. “El Camino Real de los Tejas served as a political, economic, and cultural link between Mexico City and Los Adaes (and all points in between). The Spanish named this place Paraje el Cerrito, the campground at the little mound or hill, and it offered a high, dry land with grass for grazing animals, edible plants for foraging, and the nearby Neches River and natural springs. The dry mound prairie, a welcome sight to weary travelers, served as a paraje, or perpetual campground. During the time of European contact, Spanish travelers to the land of the Tejas journeyed along El Camino Real de los Tejas (the Royal Road-the oldest road in Texas) and faced a muddy and difficult crossing at the Neches River.
It is a complex set of relationships between travelers and nature, buyers and sellers, governors and governed.”įor thousands of years, this slice of East Texas has been a permanent residence and perpetual campground to the Tejas/Caddo, Spanish, French, Anglo, African American, and a variety of other people.
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“The camino real, or more aptly the caminos reales, is more than a route, more than a series of parajes between two end points.
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