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