Johnson City Pedernales Electric Cooperative Payroll — Blanco County

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Johnson City Pedernales Electric Cooperative Payroll — Blanco County

Lost Treasure TX • Blanco County County
Description
Johnson City legend of a Pedernales Electric Cooperative payroll from the 1930s — when Lyndon B. Johnson brought LCRA power to the Hill Country.
Historical Notes
Johnson City did not receive modern utilities until the 1930s, when Lyndon Baines Johnson sponsored legislation introducing full electric power through the Lower Colorado River Authority and the Pedernales Electric Cooperative. Depression-era rural-electrification payroll folklore sometimes places strongboxes along cooperative construction corridors where weekly wages moved as cash. Johnson later donated his lands as the Lyndon Baines Johnson National Historical Park. Coordinates mark Johnson City in Blanco County between Stonewall and the Pedernales Falls country.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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