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The President's Ranch Trail is dedicated to LBJ
On this day in 1967, the President's Ranch Trail was dedicated at Wimberley. The trail is a ninety-mile route through Hays, Blanco, and Gillespie counties. It extends from the LBJ Ranch, located on Ranch Road 1 near Stonewall, to San Marcos. The route touches places important in the life of Lyndon Baines Johnson, including the Lyndon B. Johnson Birthplace, Boyhood Home, and Ranch; the Johnson family cemetery; Lyndon B. Johnson State Historical Park; the Pedernales Electric Cooperative in Johnson City, which was brought into being under Johnson's influence in the United States Senate; the First Christian Church in Johnson City, to which Johnson belonged; the Hye Post office, where he mailed his first letter; the Albert post office, general store, and school building; and his alma mater, Southwest Texas State University, in San Marcos, where his student dwelling is also located.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- PRESIDENT'S RANCH TRAIL
- JOHNSON, LYNDON BAINES
- LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON BIRTHPLACE, BOYHOOD HOME, AND RANCH
- LYNDON B. JOHNSON STATE HISTORICAL PARK
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
- Mexican War memoirist and rogue dies (1908)
- Battle of Stone Houses (1837)
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