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Written by Shirley T
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Monday, 08 February 2010 00:00 |
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At Sauer-Beckmann Living History Farm, one may step back in time to experience German-Texan farm life between 1915-1918. Located several yards east of LBJ State Park & Historic Site Visitors Complex, The Sauer-Beckmann Farm presents 'back to the past' life on the farmstead whereby costumed interpreters demonstrate the daily household chores like feeding the animals, gathering eggs, milking, cooking with wood-burning stove and making candles.
The story of Sauer-Beckmann Farm began when Johann and Christine Sauer, along with their four children called this piece of land their home in 1869. Time past and their family prospered. In 1885, several stone buildings were erected near the original rock and log cabins. The Sauers had 10 children and one of them, Augusta Sauer Lindig served as midwife at the birth of President Johnson. Somehow in 1990, the Beckmann family acquired the property and five years later, the new owner - Emil and Emma Beckmann built a new barn, added a frame room onto old rock structure and constructed porches connecting to the Victorian house that turned the farm as what we see today.
If you follow the narrative audio from the LBJ self-guided tour CD, Sauer-Beckmann Living History Farm is the first destination suggested. Park your car across the farm's wooden gate. Back then, Sauer and Beckmann families were perhaps the nearest neighbors to the Johnson.
We were greeted by a pair of pigs as soon as we walked across the fence. Next to them was a barn and a shed stood behind it. Tooling, welding or any kind of fixing gets done here. A few steps behind the rock structure building is where the chickens, turkeys and lambs roaming wild. Interestingly, I found out that a chicken lays an egg a day. Pretty fertile!
We then unlocked the small gate and entered into the farm house vicinity. Two stone shelters store some pickled vegetables - a means for storage before the birth of refrigerator I guess. Adjacent to these
structures is the lovely farm house. Stroll inside their kitchen and smell the burning wood. Interior decorations and furniture are collections from the past. Curious and wish to know more, talk to the park
interpreters to unravel the puzzles in your mind.
Getting there?
From LBJ Boyhood Home in Johnson City, TX - Take Highway 290, 14 miles westbound
From Fredericksburg, TX - Take Highway 290, 16 miles eastbound
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