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Bring your group to the Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society to:

• Tour the Surveyors' House - As written about in "By the Shores of Silver Lake" this home was the first for the Ingalls in Dakota Territory. 

• Tour the Ingalls Home - A home custom built by Pa himself.

• Tour the newly opened First School of De Smet, which was attended by Laura Ingalls Wilder and her sister Carried.

• Visit the Discovery Center - 

• Try an old fashioned sewing machine

• Dress like a pioneer

• Learn to read Braille

• Make a covered wagon

• Write with quill and ink

• Play old time games

Get a behind the scenes peek and see the vault where artifacts are stored.


If you are planning to come in May please call early as times fill up quickly. All buses are provided with a walk on guide.

1-800-880-3383