July 16: The Ingalls Homestead

Remember that the Ingalls family
(Little House on the Prairie)
settled in DeSmet, SD and that Pa filed
a Homestead Claim just outside of town?
The Sullivans have reconstructed Pa's Claim Shanty
in it's correct location to Laura's description and according
to the description given in the Claim Papers.
There is now a tiny RV Campground on Laura's Hilltop
as well as a reconstructed Schoolhouse.

The Hilltop Laura wrote of in
Little House on the Prairie.
The Claim Shanty is in
the lower right.

Pa's Claim Shanty reconstructed as seen
from Laura's Hilltop.
DeSmet is visible from
it's windows about
a mile to the Northwest.

A copy of part of Pa's
Claim Papers.

The Slough Laura wrote of
from which Pa harvested
the Slough Grass with which
they heated the Store
during The Long Winter.
PIC taken from the
Claim Shanty porch.

This original Claim Shanty from
the adjacent Homestead was
donated and moved onto
the Ingalls Homestead
by the Sullivans.

It's History.