The Reconstructed Birthplace (wayside)

President Johnson's grandparents stand at the original home with family in the late 1800s.

LBJ Library photo

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Near this site at dawn on August 27, 1908, the future 36th President of the United States was born. He was the first child of Sam Ealy Johnson Jr.—a state legislator—and Rebekah Baines Johnson, an educator and journalist. Lyndon Baines Johnson lived here for the first five years of his life.

In 1964 President and Mrs. Johnson had the building in front of you constructed as a guest house for visitors to the LBJ Ranch. It stands on the site of, and closely resembles, the original home that was removed in the 1930s. Though never intended as a literal reconstruction, 'the birthplace' was furnished with Johnson family mementos spanning many generations.