After lunch we headed back into town to finish exploring there.
There's a small "discovery center" in the park that had some craft stuff, dress up clothes, information on how to read Braille, and, Lexie's favorite, a treadle sewing machine to try!
After visiting the small museum where we'd taken the house tour, which had some awesome stuff but didn't allow pictures, we drove around De Smet to see the other locations.
The store building that Pa built, and the family lived in the first couple winters, was sold soon after. The new owner replaced Pa's wood building with this red brick building that's still standing.
Laura talks about Loftus store and it still exists. More tourist trap junk than general store now, but still a store.
The woman in Loftus store said during a renovation, some shoes, still in shoeboxes, from the 1800s were found in a corner of the attic. One of the shoes, and a box, are on display in the store.
We also drove by the church and cemetery where the family, except for Laura, is buried.
We drove by Laura and Almanzo's claim, now farm land.
Once we came back to the homestead things were winding down for the day but we did get to see a demonstration of twisting hay
Little Bit made a corncob doll (I gave up on pictures, another mom was blocking my view).
And we got to say hi to a pony and her baby before it started raining and we headed back to the motorhome for the evening.
There's a small "discovery center" in the park that had some craft stuff, dress up clothes, information on how to read Braille, and, Lexie's favorite, a treadle sewing machine to try!
After visiting the small museum where we'd taken the house tour, which had some awesome stuff but didn't allow pictures, we drove around De Smet to see the other locations.
The store building that Pa built, and the family lived in the first couple winters, was sold soon after. The new owner replaced Pa's wood building with this red brick building that's still standing.
Laura talks about Loftus store and it still exists. More tourist trap junk than general store now, but still a store.
The woman in Loftus store said during a renovation, some shoes, still in shoeboxes, from the 1800s were found in a corner of the attic. One of the shoes, and a box, are on display in the store.
We also drove by the church and cemetery where the family, except for Laura, is buried.
We drove by Laura and Almanzo's claim, now farm land.
Once we came back to the homestead things were winding down for the day but we did get to see a demonstration of twisting hay
Little Bit made a corncob doll (I gave up on pictures, another mom was blocking my view).
And we got to say hi to a pony and her baby before it started raining and we headed back to the motorhome for the evening.
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