Here, costumed interpreters carry out the day-to-day activities of a turn-of-the-century Texas-German farm family.Some chores are seasonal, such as canning and butchering. Farm animals, however, must be cared for on a daily basis, including activities like feeding , milking, gather the eggs and slopping the hogs. Also, the house is cleaned, meals are cooked, butter is churned and cheese is made. Visitors may see the "family" scrubbing the floors with homemade lye soap, or plowing the garden with a team of horses.
The setting for the present-day living history activities is an authentic Hill Country farm. Johann and Christine Sauer, along with their four children, settled this land in 1869. Their family prospered and grew and, by 1885, several stone buildings were built near the original rock and log cabins. Eventually the Sauers had 10 children, one of those, Augusta Sauer Lindig served as midwife at the birth of President Johnson.
The Beckman 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.
The tour stared at the farm. Here are some of the cows.
This is their garden. Everything they use for food comes for this garden and the animals that they raise. 
The tack room.
This is their garden. Everything they use for food comes for this garden and the animals that they raise. 
The tack room. 
Old wagon
The house
The barn
Some beautiful flowers outside the house.
This is the kitchen that they use every day. The food they make ends up feeding the workers in the park.
More kitchen pictures
When we got there they had already finished cooking and they were on the porch eating. It smelled delicious!!!
I had to take a picture of the girls taking pictures. They must have taken hundreds of pictures. Their cameras were snapping all over the place!
More pictures inside the house
Turkey-gobble gobble
I forget what this is called. (Smokehouse maybe???) They had onions etc and dried meats.
Some of their canned vegetables
Table with pots and pans
Butter churn
Johnny looking at more canned fruits and vegetables.
Old stove
Outhouse
Johnny in the outhouse. I couldn't get the girls to get their picture taken in there. lol
I can't remember is this is the house that LBJ grew up in or his grandparents.
The grave of Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson. Lady Bird on the left and LBJ on the right.
One of their goats sitting in his trough
In the barn. The longhorns had LBJ etched in their horns.
Hailey "pretend" kissing a longhorn
Lazy eater
The runway
Air Force One (LBJ liked to refer to it as Air Force 1/2 since it was a smaller plane)
Some pictures
LBJ with his grandson Lyndon Nugent. Bob is friends with and flies with Lyndon.
LBJ used to "sing" with his dog.
This is the All-Terrain Vehicle pictures above
More of LBJ's vehicles
"Boat" car
The actual "Boat" car
This is where he would give his speeches when he was on the ranch.
This was their youngest daugher, Luci's, 18th birthday president.
Our tour guide for the Texas White House. I wish I could have taken pictures inside the house, but you aren't allowed. It was very interesting inside!
The president used to have many meetings outside under this tree.
The pool and pool house. They had the pool put in after the president had his first heart attack so that he could get some exercise. Lady Bird ended up being the one that excercised in it. After the president passed away and Lady Bird still lived here they had an indoor pool put in the building you see so that tourists couldn't see her exercising in the pool.
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