We have been to the Fredericksburg area multiple times and always talked about going to the Lyndon Johnson Ranch but never actually made it there. So we decided to check it out this time. LBJ Ranch is part of two parks. A portion of it is a Texas State Park and another portion of the ranch is a National Historic Park. Most of the ranch, over 200 acres of it, are still owned by the descendants of LBJ. The ranch house was called the Texas White House due to LBJ liking to host meetings
and dignitaries on the ranch. It has a small airfield that they would fly LBJ to the ranch on what he referred to as Air Force ½ since it was a small business jet (Air Force one was too big for the runway on the ranch). LBJ was also an active rancher and bred Hereford cows on the ranch that he would then sell as breeding stock to other ranchers. The ranch house was closed due to COVID as well as structural issues with the old house, but we did get to tour the museum in the National Historic Park and drove around the ranch areas open to the public. We then went back to the state park and toured the historic ranch and buildings from some of the original German settlers to the area.
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State Park Entrance Sign
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Historical Park entrance sign
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Air Force 1/2
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Texas White House
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