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On Hwy 290 between
Johnson
City and Stonewall,
just east of Gillespie
County line.
The Hye General Store and Post Office was designated a Recorded Texas
Historic Landmark in 1966.
LBJ swore in Postmaster General Lawrence O'Brien here. It's safe to
assume Mr. O'Brien traveled considerably further for the ceremony
than did Mr. Johnson. Hye was named for Hiram G. Brown, the settler
who established the Post Office in 1886.
The population of Hye has never exceeded 200. |
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Hye,
Texas Chronicles
Hye
Society by Michael
Barr
Hye, Texas is a tiny rural community on U. S. Highway 290 between
Fredericksburg and Johnson
City, about four miles from the LBJ
Ranch. The highway is wedged between the store and the old gas
station across the street.
The store building is an aging wooden structure of Bavarian design
that sits just a little too close to the highway. Eighty years ago
the store carried everything from calico to horse collars, but today
it seems more like a museum than anything else.
President Johnson selected this folksy setting for the O'Brien ceremony
because at heart Johnson was a sentimental man. More than any president
since Washington and Jefferson of Virginia, LBJ had a rock-solid
sense of place. He loved his home in the Texas
Hill Country and couldn't understand why everyone didn't feel
the same way.
The president's attachment to Hye
went back as far as he could remember. He mailed his first letter
at the post office, to his Grandmother Johnson, at age four.... more
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