The Republic was interested in highway building as early as 1844. On
February 5 of that year the Legislature provided for the construction of
“The Central National Road of the Republic of Texas”, later called the
Kiamisha Road. The legislative body decreed that the cost of the road
should not exceed 160 acres of land for each mile constructed.
The road was to stretch from near the mouth of the Elm Fork of the
Trinity River to the Red River opposite the mouth of Kiamisha Creek,
from which the road took its name. The highway was to be at least
30-feet wide, and all bridges were to be at least 15-feet wide.
The Kiamisha Road was never built.