The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 38, July 1934 - April, 1935 Page: 205
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Location of Tejas Indian Village and Spanish Missions 205
beginning at Kennedy crossing and followed the south bank of
the Neches, and continued our journey through woods and fields,
until we arrived at the mouth of San Pedro creek, about four
miles from Kennedy's crossing.3 Here we noted that the Neches
does not flow from north to south, but after its junction with the
San Pedro the Neches River for a distance of several miles flows
due east.4 Let us now trace the old Camino Real in this region.
From the present city of Crockett, Texas, the old San Antonio
road or Camino Real ran in a northeasterly direction toward
present Alto. At a point about twenty miles northeast of Crockett
the McLean farm or ranch is reached and located in a gap in a
range of high hills running east and west. At the present time
Mr. James McLean has a residence and tenant house at this
point, but in the early days, within a distance of perhaps fifty
feet east of this tenant house, the former north loop of the San
Antonio road branched off toward the north for a distance of
about a mile and half, turning then toward the east. After bend-
ing toward the east, the road followed the foot of the hills along
the course of the Neches valley, but above the flood-line of the
Neches River, and crossed the Neches at a point about two hun-
dred and twenty yards west of the Kennedy crossing. In later
years the eastern fork of the old San Antonio road, branching off
near the McLean tenant house, became the present highway, but
it was along the northern loop of the road (now abandoned) that
mission San Francisco and mission Maria were evidently built.
2. THE SITE OF THE TEJAS VILLAGE (SAN PEDRO)
Since the mission of San Francisco was founded in the center
of the Tejas village of the Nabedache Indians, it is important
first to locate this settlement as accurately as possible. This may
best be done by consulting contemporary records of which there
are several extant.
Captain Alonzo de Le6n on May 22, 1690, recorded that his
company founded the settlement of San Francisco de los Tejas
'In the San Pedro region, the Neches River in time of flood overflows
its banks on each side for almost half a mile and frequently to a depth
of two or more feet.
4This fact may explain the differences among early Spanish writers in
recording the distances from the Neches River to certain Indian villages
and missions.
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