Lyndon B. Johnson State Park & Historic SiteHill Country, Texas
Day-use facility reservations: (512) 389-8900
Farm Reservations for Groups (830) 644-2252, ext. 229
The Beckmann family acquired the property in 1900. A good cotton crop in 1915 allowed Emil and Emma Beckmann to build a new barn, to add a frame room onto the old rock structure and to construct porches connecting to a lovely Victorian house covered with fashionable pressed tin.
In 1966 Edna Beckmann Hightower sold the site to Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Archeological surveying and restoration work was undertaken and the farm opened to the public in 1975. Since then, time has stood still and the farm remains forever a small piece of Texas as it was at the beginning of the 20th Century.
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| The house is cleaned, meals are cooked, butter is churned and cheese is made. |
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| Some chores are seasonal, such as canning & butchering. Farm animals, however must be cared for on a daily basis, including activities like feeding, milking, gathering eggs & slopping the hogs. |
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| The setting for the present-day living history activities is an authentic Hill Country Farm. Visitors may see the family scrubbing the floors with homemade lye soap, or plowing the garden with a team of horses. |
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