Fieldtrips

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.