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Southwest Trail was a general term for a network of trails linking St. Louis and Ste-Geneviève, Missouri to the Red River Valley of Texas. European American pioneers improved and expanded the older route. At the time of Americans' first settling the Texas territory, the Red River was the border between Mexico and the United States.
This section derived in part from U.S. Army Topographical Engineer Lieutenant William H. Emory's Map of Texas and the Country Adjacent… of 1844, which was a compilation of the best information on what became the American Southwest available in Washington, D.C., before the war with Mexico. It also included up-to-date information obtained by ...
The expedition was unofficially initiated by the president of Texas, Mirabeau B. Lamar.The initiative was a major component of Lamar's ambitious plan to turn the fledgling republic into a continental power, which the president believed had to be achieved as quickly as possible to stave off the growing movement demanding the annexation of Texas to the United States.
Currently, RE 8 is the only route which deviates from the system, as it serves Choke Canyon State Park. [7] The system makes up 80.5 miles (129.6 km) of Texas' state highway system; the longest Recreational Road is RE 255, at approximately 56.6 miles (91.1 km), while the shortest route in the system is RE 6 at just 0.3 miles (480 m). [1]
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In 1915, the State of Texas and the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) funded a project to place pink granite markers at approximately 5-mile (8.0 km) intervals along the route of the Old San Antonio Road. V.N. Zively, a professional surveyor, mapped the routing in 1915 and 1916 and placed an oak post at each marker site. Inscribed ...
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Farm to Market Road 700 (FM 700) is located in Howard County.It runs from Business I-20 in Big Spring to US 87 north of Big Spring.. FM 700 was designated on November 8, 1946, from US 80 (now Business I-20) west of Big Spring to the north boundary of the U.S. Air Force Training School area (later Webb Air Force Base).