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Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in central Texas about 50 miles (80 km) west of Austin in the Texas Hill Country. [4] The park protects the birthplace, home, ranch , and grave of Lyndon B. Johnson , 36th president of the United States . [ 5 ]
President Lyndon B. Johnson's boyhood home in Johnson City, Texas. Johnson's family moved from a farm near Stonewall, Texas -- now known as the LBJ Ranch -- to Johnson City (a distance of about fourteen miles) two weeks after his fifth birthday, in September 1913. For most of the next twenty-four years, this was their home.
The park has a large visitor center complex with an interpretive center about Johnson's life. Tours of the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park are by permit only and are by self-guided driving tour departing from the state park's visitor center. The park offers recreational facilities for swimming, tennis and baseball.
President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, moved back to his Johnson City, Texas, ranch after leaving the White House. Lyndon B. Johnson's ranch. Cynthia Dorminey/NPS
Pedernales River as it passes through the LBJ Ranch near Stonewall. Stonewall is located in eastern Gillespie County on the Pedernales River, in the Hill Country of central Texas. U.S. Route 290 passes through the community, leading west 14 miles (23 km) to Fredericksburg, the Gillespie County seat, and east 15 miles (24 km) to Johnson City.
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The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin was named in his honor, as is the Lyndon B. Johnson National Grassland. Also named for him are schools in Austin and Laredo, Texas; Melbourne, Florida; and Jackson, Kentucky. Interstate 635 in Dallas is named the Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway. The Lyndon Baines ...
The Johnson Ranch, or "Texas White House" In 1952, White was hired by Lady Bird Johnson (wife of then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson) to be the primary architect overseeing the redesign and expansion of her Hill Country home near Johnson City, Texas, which would later be known as the "Texas White House" (now part of the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park).