Our Journey To See History and Find Ancestors Little House on the Prairie

As promised here is our next installment of Our Journey To See History and Find Ancestors. This time we decided to go and see the Little House on the Prairie Museum Site outside Independence KS. As a young girl I loved the Little House Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder so it is only fitting to want to see the site that the book talked about. We had been out to see it many years ago and really at that time there wasn't much there so we weren't sure what to expect. We knew no matter what was there that we would enjoy the car ride. It turned out that it is a nice outing and we enjoyed the trip.

 The Little House on the Prairie site is outside of Independence KS on County Road 3000.   You drive right up to it and start you adventure back to the time of Charles and Caroline Ingalls. The Ingalls family lived here from 1869-1871 and in 1870 Carrie Ingalls was born here.   As I stood  and looked at the cabin and the land behind the cabin I could just picture it the way Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote about it in her book. The cabin they say is built by the description in the book and is a good replica of the cabin the Ingalls lived in while here.                    
Here are some of the pictures we took while there.

This is the cabin, post office and one room school house on the site.

This is the hand dug well that Charles Ingalls dug 

The cabin from the front

Cabin from back with chimney

 door to enter the cabin

Inside the cabin look at that bed

The other side of the cabin

This is the Sunny Side School that was moved here 

Inside the one room school

The Wayside Post office that was moved to this sit

Step right up to the window or get your mail from the box

The mail slots in the post office



This is a real treat and a step back into time when the prairie was open and the Ingalls family lived here. This was worth the drive to see. It makes me want to read the books again and to go see the other Ingalls sites.

If you would like to learn more about this site check out their web page at
http://www.littlehouseontheprairiemuseum.com/
They are open Apr. - Oct
Mon. - Sun. 10am-5pm

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