Johnson Log Cabin and Smokehouse, Johnson Settlement, LBJ NHP, Johnson City, TX

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Johnson Log Cabin and Smokehouse, Johnson Settlement, LBJ NHP, Johnson City, TX
Johnson Log Cabin and Smokehouse, Johnson Settlement, LBJ NHP, Johnson City, TX

**Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 69000202, date listed 19691202

Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park

Johnson City, TX (Blanco County)

THE JOHNSON LOG CABIN OR THE SAM EALY JOHNSON, SR. LOG HOUSE (HB-7)-1856-84, LBJ's grandparents, Sam Ealy Johnson and his wife Eliza Bunton, lived in this cabin from 1869 to 1872. The cabin, the core building of the Johnson Settlement area, lies approximately .5 miles west of the Boyhood Home. The Johnson Log Cabin, restored to the 1869-1872 period by the National Park Service in 1972, is a Texas dog-trot cabin (two rooms connected by a breezeway) constructed with hand-hewn, squared oak logs with lime mortar chinking. James Provost built the west wing of the 20x41x32 structure about 1856, and Sam Ealy Johnson, Sr. in the late 1860s built the east wing. Massive end chimneys of coursed limestone, mortared with lime and red clay, rise at the east and west elevations. The cabin has a gabled roof with cypress shakes.

THE JOHNSON LOG CABIN SMOKEHOUSE (HB-8)-1972, is a reconstruction, on its original site, by the National Park Service. The smokehouse has a stone foundation, and hand-hewn squared oak log construction with lime mortar chinking. It has an earthen floor with a stone-ringed smoke pit and a cedar shingle gabled roof. The smokehouse is intended to add to the 1860s- 1870s historic scene in the Johnson Settlement area. (1)

References (1) NRHP Nomination Form atlas.thc.state.tx.us/NR/pdfs/69000202/69000202.pdf

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