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Featured Historic
Trips
San
Antonio Missions (World Heritage Site) by Byron Browne
The
Texas State Railroad and Texas Forest Trail by John Troesser
The
Texas State Railroad by Archie McDonald (All Things Historical)
Goliad,
and Goliad State Historic Sites
Gonzales:
Come and Enjoy It
The
Road to Independence
The
Painted Churches Tour -
The painted churches of Fayette County
El
Camino Real by Archie McDonald (All Things Historical)
AKA The King's Highway, Texas 21, Old Spanish Trail, and the Old
San Antonio Road
Mackenzie
Trail by Clay Coppedge
"A number of towns have claimed portions of the Mackenzie Trail
as their own, and most of them probably have a right to do so....
The best of what's left of the Mackenzie Trail today is probably
on private property. You're near it when you're at the intersection
of U.S. 277 and Texas 6 in Stamford, where a monument tells you
the trail ran a little north of there. The trail also ran between
Dickens and Spur, so when you're on parts of U.S. Highway 82 from
Dickens to Lubbock you're probably following Mackenzie's path pretty
closely."
The
Pinta Trail "Hindsights" column by Michael Barr
Trammel's
Trace by Clay Coppedge
Trammel's Trace started (or ended) at what is now East Main Street
in Nacogdoches and took North Street through what is now Mount Enterprise,
then north between current Rusk and Panola Counties and across the
Sabine River near Tatum. From there the road jogged north through
Marshall and Jefferson, crossing the Sulphur River at Stephenson's
and Epperson's Ferry.
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The
Alamo (World Heritage Site)
Site of the 1836 Battle of the Alamo
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A
Unique Historical Landmark by Bob Bowman
A granite shaft set into the ground on April 23, 1841, marks the
only international boundary existing within the continental United
States.
Farm Road 31 between Deadwood, Texas, and Logansport, Louisiana
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Wild
Rose Pass
The two mile-long pass ranges from 4,320 feet to 4,546 feet above
sea level.
Texas Legend Bigfoot Wallace, who once carried mail by foot from
San Antonio to El Paso later drove a stagecoach along the Skillman
mail route which included the pass.
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Larissa
Cherokee County Ghost town
Site of the Killough Massacre
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Featured Texas
Historic Destinations:
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Fort
Concho
The best preserved of the chain of forts across Texas. Twenty-three
buildings on 40 acres make up this National Historic Landmark.
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The
Chisholm Trail Rides Again by Clay Coppedge
Anyone wanting to follow the Old Chisholm Trail through Bell County
would find part of the quest relatively easy, at least as easy as
driving on IH-35. The old trail roughly paralleled the Interstate
from Salado to Belton. After that following the old trail might
get a little trickier, though anyone who spends much time here passes
or crosses it many more times than they could ever know... more
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Finding
the Polancio Grave Marker by Barclay Gibson
Back in the 1870s a stage was attacked by Indians and a man, Jose
Maria Palacios, was killed. He was buried right where he fell, at
the base of the Peak and a crude rock slab had the information scratched
on it...
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National Scenic
Drives
Camino
Real National Scenic Byway by Delbert Trew
The old road "Camino Real" or Royal Road may not be the oldest road
in America but was completed in 1598... It begins at the San Juan
Pueblo in northern New Mexico, goes 400 miles south to El Paso then
on another 1,200 miles to Mexico City. The U.S. designated it a
National Scenic Byway...
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