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The park protects the birthplace, home, ranch, and grave of Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th president of the United States. [5] During Johnson's administration, the LBJ Ranch was known as the Texas White House because the President spent approximately 20% of his time in office there. [6]
Friends of Johnson raised the money to buy the land across the Pedernales River from Johnson's Ranch (now part of the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park) for the park and donated the land to the State of Texas in 1965.
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 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).
Famous examples include Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, as well as George W. Bush's Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas; Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan have also used the term for their private residences (Nixon and Reagan in California, Johnson in Texas). [15] [16] [17]
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 ...
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.
Ranch Road 1 (RR 1) is a 6.587-mile (10.6 km) state road in Gillespie and Blanco counties, in the central region of Texas, United States.It begins at U.S. Route 290 (US 290) in Stonewall, running along the Pedernales River through Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park, the late President Lyndon Johnson's former ranch, and through Lyndon B. Johnson State Park and Historic Site, before ...