This road was a route for U.S. 2nd Cavalry troops and supplies from San Antonio to Fort Mason, about 100 miles south of here, and to Camp Cooper, about 65 miles north, during campaigns of 1851-1861 against Plains Indians. Great military men in American history traveled this road, including Robt. E. Lee, later a commanding general, C.S.A., and Geo. T. Thomas, the Rock of Chickamauga.