101 ► Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish, Natchitoches — The Old Natchitoches Parish Courthouse — 1896 —

The New Orleans architectural firm Favrot and Livaudais designed this building in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. It served as the parish courthouse until 1940, when a new courthouse was completed. — — Map (db m175239) HM

102 ► Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish, Natchitoches — The Red River Campaign —

In April 1864, life along tranquil Cane River was brutally disrupted when the Civil War reached area residents. In an operation known as the Red River Campaign, Union naval and land forces advanced up the Red River valley from occupied portions of . . . — — Map (db m106514) HM

103 ► Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish, Robeline — El Camino Real — Kings Highway — Old San Antonio Road —

Historical park ¼ mile from here. Site of Los Adaes, once capital of Spanish Texas. Erected by the State of Louisiana and the Daughters of the American Revolution. — — Map (db m106137) HM

104 ► Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish, Robeline — El Camino Real de los Tejas — (Royal Road of the Tejas Indians) —

This early road connected the presidio, "Nuestra Senora del Pilar de los Adaes", to the royal authority in Mexico City. An elected representative from Los Adaes traveled 1300 miles to Mexico City where he collected the soldiers' salaries and . . . — — Map (db m86807) HM

105 ► Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish, Robeline — Los Adaes —

Mission founded nearby in 1717 for Adaes Indians by Fra Margil, Franciscan of Zacatecas, who traversed the trail from Panama on foot. French Natchitoches served by missionaries from this easternmost Spanish post. Plaque Dedicated June 1, . . . — — Map (db m86805) HM

106 ► Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish, Robeline — Los Adais —

On this hill Spain erected a fort that served as Capital of the Province of Texas from 1721 to 1773. The only Spanish Mission in this area was erected on the opposite hill in 1717, soon after the French founded Natchitoches. — — Map (db m106136) HM

107 ► Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish, Robeline — The Presidio Nuestra Senora del Pilar de los Adais —

Was founded in 1721 by the Spaniards on the crest of this hill as the Eastern outpost of the Spanish Empire in the West and for fifty years was the capital of the Province of Texas until its abandonment in 1773. Site donated and tablet erected . . . — — Map (db m106134) HM

108 ► Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish, Saline — Birth Site of Caroline Dormon —

Caroline Coroneos Dormon was born July 19, 1888, at Briarwood, her family's summer home and died November 23, 1971, in Shreveport, Louisiana. Dormon was a descendant of Gaspar Joseph Trotti, a South Carolina patriot in the American Revolutionary . . . — — Map (db m241901) HM

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