Las Boregas Camp Site

Las Boregas Creek formed the eastern boundary of the 1794 Spanish land grant to Juan Ignacio Pifermo, the oldest grant in Sabine County. El Camino de los Tejas, part of El Camino Real, the main road into Spanish Texas, crossed the creek near this point. During the Spanish colonial period, a well-known campsite developed near the creek, and about 1800 a Spanish army post was established upstream to protect settlers and travel. The creek's name may be a misspelling of Borregas, meaning lambs less than a year old. According to his journal, Empresario Stephen F. Austin, the Father of Texas, spent his first night in Texas on Boreg Creek on July 16, 1821.

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