A 5-ton boulder of Texas granite commemorates the historic highway. It was dedicated on March 27, 1924, on the grounds of San Antonio’s City Hall.
There is a big rock at the northeast corner of San Antonio’s City Hall grounds, and it has been there for almost a century. Known as the Zero Mile Marker or Milestone, this hefty boulder of Texas granite explains itself a bit cryptically with an affixed bronze tablet, engraved “Zero Milestone/Old Spanish Trail,” followed by an east-west list of American cities . The text also recognizes that the marker was “Dedicated by Gov. Pat M.
Texas Centennial statue at San Antonio City Hall gets a makeover Key to it all is the Old Spanish Trail — “ historic named highway known as the Old Spanish Trail includes segments of some of the oldest roads and trails in Texas,” according to its entry in the “Historical Highways” section of the Texas Historical Commission website, thc.texas.gov. “Spanning the nation from St. Augustine, Fla., to San Diego, Calif.
Canary Islanders’ links to San Fernando Cathedral extend from the mid-1700s to modern-day baptism As many as 250 named routes had been plotted at their mid-1920s peak, says the “Highway History” page on the Federal Highway Administration website, www.fhwa.dot.gov. There was considerable overlap and no standard signage, which could be confusing to motorists, and the cobbled-together named “highways” weren’t recognized as such by the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads nor state governments.
Memorial at San Antonio’s San Pedro Springs Park pays tribute to bygone occupation The March 27, 1924, ceremony started with former freighters , scouts and Indian fighters — on parade with 14-mule wagon trains, oxcarts and stagecoaches and “older scouts on gentle saddle horses,” according to the Express, March 23, 1924.
Mayor Tobin ran to prevent Klan victory Texas Gov. Pat Neff gave the dedicatory address, describing the huge stone’s location as “within the shadow of the age-old San Fernando Cathedral, whose uplifted iron cross has always been used as the beginning point for land surveys and … represents the geographical center of the Alamo City.” The Most Rev. Arthur J. Drossaerts, archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio, delivered the benediction.
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