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The El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail is a National Historic Trail covering the U.S. section of the ''El Camino Real de Los Tejas'' from 17th-century Spanish colonial era in Spanish Texas. The National Park Service designated the El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail as a unit in the National Historic Trail system in 2004. The modern highways Texas 21 (along with Texas OSR) and Louisiana 6 roughly follow the original route of the trail.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=El Camino Real de los Tejas: Exploring the Royal Road )〕 ==History== The historic trail ran from the capitol and central Viceroyalty of New Spain — present day Mexico City — winding through Saltillo, Monterrey, Laredo (on the modern Texas border), San Antonio, and Nacogdoches, before reaching the Louisiana border at the Sabine River. The river crossing was a ferry, in use since around 1795, as the Chabanan Ferry. James Taylor Gaines purchased the ferry in 1819, and it became known as the Gaines Ferry. Gaines sold the ferry in 1843 and at some point it began to be called Pendleton's Ferry.〔(GAINES FERRY," Handbook of Texas Online ), accessed April 22, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.〕 The ferry remained in service until being replaced by the Gaines-Pendleton Bridge in 1937. After crossing the river the trail went through the Neutral Strip and Many, Louisiana before ending at Natchitoches in modern Louisiana.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=The Kings' Highways: Lost Trails ) 〕 The trail has a 2,500 mile length. For centuries the Native Americans had used the trail routes for trading between the Great Plains and Chihuahuan Desert regions. The El Camino Real de Los Tejas was first followed and marked by Spanish explorers and missionaries in the 1700s. It was one of several ''El Camino Real'', or 'royal roads,' that connected the more Spanish possessions in North America with Mexico City. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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