Yesterday 2 of the girls and I went to a funeral in south Missouri. On the way back, we stopped in Mansfield MO and toured the Laura Ingalls Homestead. We stayed for 3 hours, but you could easily make a full day of it.
Little ones are free, children are $4 and adults are $8. For this, you get to tour the museum, and 2 of her homes (one is just down the road from the other). They have lots of benches and picnic tables in the parking area and at the rock house and farm house. They welcome people to picnic there before, or after their tour. We also got to see Pa's fiddle, some of Lauras needlework, books, writings and much, much more.
They do not allow any inside pictures, but you can take all you want outside.
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| This house took them years to build. They built it all themselves, except for the last addition . The fireplace was made of 40 wagon loads of rock taken from the farm. |
Both locations had lots of wild flowers in bloom, and redbud trees.
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| The rock house |
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| The twins sitting beside the front door at the rock house. |
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| The garage at the big house. When Rose built this house for her parents, she also bought them a car and taught them how to drive. This is where the car was kept. |
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| The back porch of the Rock House. Each of the gutters empties into a small cistern, which then goes to a larger one. They only used the well water for drinking and cooking. The rain water was used for all other purposes. |
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| Notice the insulators for the electric. Rose paid over $3000 to have the electricity brought to the house from Mansfield. |
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| Floor to ceiling windows opened during the summer to bring a breeze through the house. This is the house Laura lived in when she started writing the Little House books. |
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| Even though they had a refrigerator, Alanzo used this spring house to store the milk from his goats in. |
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