Historical Marker
Camino Real (The King's Highway)
Historical marker location:
114 W. Mills Ave., El Paso, Texas
( corner of Mills and Oregon; southwest corner of San Jacinto Plaza; downtown El Paso)
Marker installed: 1983
The regal highway extending between his Catholic majesty's far flung kingdoms of New Spain, from Mexico City to the Kingdom of New Mexico, passed here. From 1581 onward it was the route followed by conqueror, padre, merchant, adventurer and settler. Along its course passed ox-cart and mule-train and the traffic of the new realm.
1936.