The “Cradle of Texas Road” depicts the area of Original Montgomery County. As organized in December 1837, the county initially stretched east to west from the Brazos to the Trinity Rivers and north to south from the San Antonio Road to Spring Creek, near the Woodlands. Two of my published books, Cradle of Texas Road and Cradle of the Texas Republic, co-authored by my daughter, Joy, referenced the Cradle of Texas Road area. (Joy also co-authored three other of my seventeen published books).
The Cradle of the Texas Republic book includes the eight songs this writer has written about various aspects of the Cradle of Texas Road area. One of those songs, as seen below, overviews the Cradle Road Concept, including references to a few of the historic features of the Road. Those features reference the geography as listed above. Then, there is reference to a marshal named Frank Hamer who worked awhile in Navasota, the French Explorer, La Salle, and Moses Rose, who, while in the Road area near present Shiro off Highway 30, revealed the news of Travis drawing a line in the sand at the Alamo.
Now see below, one of this writer’s songs featured in the book The Cradle of the Texas Republic (The History Press, 2022). Entitled “The Cradle of Texas Road,” It was the opening song in our Cradle Road Conventions in Conroe and Montgomery respectively, conventions featuring representatives from all areas of the Cradle Road:
“There is a road in Texas unique to that great state. It marks a path
of greatness, of that there’s no mistake. It’s the work of many
cultures, and nations great and small. Together they made Texas the
answer to freedom’s call.
Here we learn that Colonel Travis drew a line in Alamo Sand, and of a
mighty marshal, the fastest in the land. And here a French Explorer,
set Spain’s head to spin, to name the new land Tejas, an Indian word
for friend.
It’s the Cradle of Texas Road where legends come alive, legends that
were born there, then spread far and wide. From the first Native
Americans, and many battle scars. It holds the key to the names of
Texas, from Spain to stars and bars.
From the banks of River Brazos, whose name means Arms of God, to near
the River Trinity, where Texas Heroes trod. Old San Antonio, the road
of its northern bounds, harbors Dreams of Glorious Texas, and battles
of renown.
Yes, it’s the Cradle of Texas Road, where legends come alive, legends
that were born there, then spread far and wide. From the first Native
Americans, and many battle scars. It holds the key to the names of
Texas, from Spain to stars and bars.”