Las Boregas Camp Site

Las Boregas Creek formed the eastern boundary of the 1794 Spanish land grant to Juan Ignacio Pifermo, making this grant the oldest in Sabine County. El Camino de los Tejas, a portion of El Camino Real - the main road into Spanish Texas - cost the creek near this point. During the Spanish colonial period, a well-known campsite developed near the creek. A Spanish army post was also established upstream to protect settlers and travel c. 1800. The name of the creek is possibly a misspelling of Borregas, meaning "lambs less than a year old." According to this journal, impresario Stephen F. Austin, the "Father of Texas," spent his first night in Texas on "Boreg Creek" on July 16, 1821. (2008).