Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park and LBJ State Park and Historic Site are joint ventures between federal and state agencies to preserve the history of LBJ's life and his family connections to Texas Hill Country.
We started with the Johnson City site, where a visitor center provides exhibits and films. Here we also toured his boyhood home, restored as it would have looked in the 1920's. LBJ was 5 years old when his family moved there in 1913.
After that we drove to the LBJ Ranch site, 14 miles from Johnson City. There another tour took us to see the one room school he attended, the home where he was born in 1908, the cemetery where he is buried, and a drive through the pastures of the ranch to a show barn used to exhibit his Hereford cattle. Final stop was the ranch house (often referred to as the Texas White House). The house is preserved as it looked when the family lived there. Near the house was parked Air Force One-Half (LBJ's name for the small jet used to fly into the ranch on his own private runway).
Lots of history and a neat drive through the Hill Country.
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