Johnson City - Wayside Panel

One of Johnson City's original structures

NPS Photo / Jack Burton

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No plumbing. No electricity. Unpaved streets. No place to buy a loaf of bread or a pound of meat. A café that sometimes hung out a sign, "Closed for Lunch." A courthouse, a cotton-gin, a ramshackle hotel. Three churches. This was the Johnson City of Lyndon B. Johnson's youth. Here, comfort and amusement came mostly from one's family and neighbors. Many of the buildings of Johnson City's early days still stand. The strong sense of community that forever attracted Lyndon Johnson back to this place still endures.