The Road Path of the Spanish explorers known as the Royal Road of the Texas Indians and also The King′s Highway was the only road path from Mexico through Texas to the northwestern portions of what is now Louisiana. Too, this road path was built to be a means of providing supplies to the many missions and presidios that were established along its route.

This path has existed for over 300 years and in the year 2004 was designated in the United States as a National Historic Trail.

Travelers on this path began with Spanish and French explorers, then missionaries of several faiths and later followed by those coming from the east, such as Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin, Jim Bowie, and David Crocket.

Located on the banks of the thirty-six mile long Cane River Lake, the modern town of Natchitoches was established by the French in 1714 and is the oldest permanent settlement within the territory of the Louisiana Purchase.

Although it was the French would founded an outpost by the name of Fort Saint Jean Baptist in this area, they began to call the subsequent town that subsequently began to develop, by the name of Natchitoches, which word came from the Caddo indigenous people. In fact, this was the word in their language that they used to call the location where upon their village stood.

The Caddoan culture, also called the Western Mississippian Cultures were a mound building culture living in the western most expansion of the Mississippian Period Cultures which lived in the southeastern area of the continent from about 1000 CE through to 1700 CE. Much earlier in their history, prior to their abandonment of tribal life for the agriculture, centralization, complexity and sedentaristic ways of the mound societies, these people had been a part of the first migration across the area now known as the Beringia Land Bridge

Those who would make their settlement in the southeastern parts of the North American continent were descents of the sons of Joktan, specifically the indigenous people were the sons of Joktan′ son Diklah.

At Los Adaes, near the end of the El Camino Real de Los Tejas, was located the presidio name Nuestra Senors del Pilar de los Adaes. From here, an elected representative from Los Adaes traveled some 1300 miles to Saltillo, Mexico City and other cities where he would collect the soldier′s salaries and purchase goods need by the soldiers back in Louisiana.

This trip, south to Mexico City, the gathering goods and then returning back to Los Adaes would take as long as six months to accomplish.

Portions of El Camino Real de Los Tejas are preserved at this state historic site.

On Cane River Lake, an abandoned meander of the Red River found in downtown Natchitoches, Louisiana, are located the remains of Fort Saint Jean Baptiste at the eastern end of El Camino Real de Los Tejas.

The jammer parked along the Cane River Lake in historic Natchitoches, Louisiana.