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Lyndon Johnson tourism boom spreads through Texas hills
Tourists flood Johnson City Stonewall and Fredericksburg as LBJ country cleans up at the cash register. 6-ounce Presidential Nectar water sells for 39 cents and rocks from the Lyndon B. Johnson ranch fetch 29 cents each. Prices for land near the ranch rise and motels eyes on Austin amid a growing, sometimes contesting, business boom driven by the President’s name.
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Jack Keever
Johnson City
Tex
Lyndon B. Johnson
LBJ
Midas
Stonewall
Texas
Lyndon
Bluebonnet Acres
Johnson
Kermitt Hahne
Hahne
Austin
Bill Youngblood
John F. Kennedy
Hyannis Port
Mass
Tom Perkins
Chamber of Commerce
Peach Center
L.B.J.” Johnson
Albert
Fredericksburg
the Standard
Charles Matus
Lbj Ranch
State Parks and Wildlife Commission
Lyndon B. Johnson State Park
Fred Wood