At Sauer-Beckmann Living History Farm, history isn’t behind glass, it’s happening right in front of you. Located within LBJ State Park and Historic Site just outside Johnson City, this working 1918 Hill Country farm is brought to life by park staff in period clothing who tend animals, cook over wood-burning stoves, and carry out the daily rhythms of early Texas rural life. Watch a blacksmith at work, feed the chickens, or pull up a chair and hear what it was like to homestead in the Hill Country more than a century ago. It’s an immersive, hands-on experience that connects families and history enthusiasts with the real Texas of the past, and the kind of thing you simply won’t find anywhere else.