Lyndon Baines Johnson

Johnson was born on August 27, 1908, on a farm near Stonewall, the eldest of five children of Samuel Ealy Johnson Jr., a former legislator, and Rebekah Baines Johnson, who encouraged his ambition. After trying jobs in California and Texas without success, he entered Southwest Texas State Teachers College in 1927 as a history and social science major active in campus politics. With an elementary teacher's certificate in 1928 he spent a year as principal and teacher at Cotulla, where his destitute Hispanic students shaped his view of poverty and government. He took his degree in 1930.

What the plaque says

Lyndon Baines Johnson The 36th President of the United States of America As a 12-year-old student attended classes of the 8th grade here at the old Stonewall school from October 1920 to June 1921. (1971)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lyndon B. Johnson State Park and Historic Site — 2.2 mi
  A state park on the Pedernales opposite the LBJ Ranch, with a working Texas-German farm kept as it was around the First World War and the permit desk for the ranch tour.
• Luckenbach — 7.0 mi
  A store, saloon and dance hall on Grape Creek that a humorist bought in 1971, declared a free state of mind, and turned into a pilgrimage for Texas music.
• Fort Martin Scott — 11 mi
  An army post of 1848 on Barons Creek beside the German town, where soldiers kept the peace of a Comanche trade and paid the merchants in hard cash.
• National Museum of the Pacific War — 12 mi
  A museum of the war in the Pacific in Chester Nimitz's hometown, dedicated at his request to the two million who served with him, with a garden given by Japan.

More markers nearby

• Major Israel M. Nunez — steps away
• Texas Ranger General E. Kirby Smith, C.S.A. — 3.7 mi
• Engel Family — 6.8 mi
• Jakob (Jacob) Brodbeck — 7.5 mi