"Old St. Mary's Road" was a topic of discussion at Tuesday's Skidmore Historical Society meeting. Edwin Wallek Jr. shared a recent conversation with Jack Linney in which Mr. Linney spoke of discovering wagon tracks worn into exposed bedrock north of the Aransas River. According to Mr. Wallek's theory, "Old St. Mary's Road" ran roughly parallel to the Aransas River from the original Aransas townsite located near the Y, all the way to the town of St. Mary's located on Copano Bay north of present day Bayside. The town of St. Mary's was severely damaged by a hurricane in 1886 (roughly as the town of Skidmore was being founded) and never recovered. Randy Wall, foreman of the Guajalote Ranch located on the north bank of the Aransas River, confirmed the road ran through ranch property. According to Mr. Wall, "On some days you can just make out the path of the old road through the treeline."
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