Prairie Homestead in South Dakota
by Carolyn Derstine
Title
Prairie Homestead in South Dakota
Artist
Carolyn Derstine
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
The Prairie Homestead is a sod house located 1/2 mile north of Badlands National Park. The house, constructed by Ed Brown and his wife in 1909, was built with sod bricks and topped with a grass roof. Western South Dakota was one of the last regions of the state to be settled by homesteaders and these sod dugouts and shanties were common throughout the prairie. However, visual memories of these homestead days are fast becoming extinct. Almost all sod homes have disappeared, melted away by the prairie rains, caved in and returned to the earth from which they came. The Prairie Homestead is now one of the few remaining original sod homes in the state and is preserved as though a homestead family was living there today. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 11, 1974 and is open to visitors for tours. Farm animals and prairie dogs also reside on its grounds adding to the historical feel.
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"A is for Abode" ABC group
September 2018
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February 4th, 2017
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