Here's a fun Texas fact for you today: our state's oldest highway dates way back to 1691. That's right, and it stretched across the Lone Star State out of San Antonio, TX?

It's called The Old San Antonio Road , and its beginnings date back to the 1690s, with much of it based on traditional Native American trails. Back then, it was more of a network of trails than a single road.

Texas' Oldest Highway Dates Back to 1691

Today, however, much of the Old San Antonio Road is now on private ranches. According to Wikipedia, Spanish explorer Alonso de León followed many of these "various I ndian and buffalo trails, crossed the Rio Grande on his way to East Texas to establish missions, effectively blazing the Old San Antonio Road."

To commemorate its rich history, in 1918, in

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