Lyndon Baines Johnson - Stonewall, TX
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linkys
N 30° 14.499 W 098° 36.606
14R E 537512 N 3345626
This birthplace of the 36th President of the United States has a rather interesting history.
Waymark Code: WMAAD0
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 12/13/2010
Views: 16
From a National Park Service writeup on this structure: "This house is a replica of the original birthplace. President and Mrs. Johnson constructed, on the site of the birthplace, a dog-trot guest house similar to the one in which he was born. Thus, the LBJ birthplace, a mid-twentieth-century structure, has the distinction of being the only presidential birthplace to be constructed, furnished, and interpreted by an incumbent chief executive. The home is a five-room, Texas dog-trot house, with stone foundation, frame construction, board-and-batten siding, and wood-shingle roof."
Originally built by President Johnson's grandfather, Sam Ealy Johnson, Sr., it was later torn down, then reconstructed on the same site by the President and First Lady. Currently it is part of the Lyndon Baines Johnson National Historical Park, and while the interior can only be viewed through large windows, it has been furnished with items from the time period of the future President's birth.
President Name: Lyndon B. Johnson
Birth Place?: yes
Term Of Office: 1963 - 1969
Date of Birth: 08/27/1908
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