The Surveyors' House is the oldest building in De Smet, built a year before there was even a town. It was built around 1879 as a railroad company house. Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote in her Little House books of living in this home the first . . . — — Map (db m209685) HM
This is the homestead site of Charles and Caroline Ingalls
and their daughters Mary, Laura, Carrie and Grace
In four of her Little House series of stories of pioneering by the Ingalls and Wilder families, Laura Ingalls Wilder, . . . — — Map (db m209488) HM
The first public school of De Smet was built in 1880 by the citizens. They not only furnished the materials but actually did the work. The school house was erected at the corner of Loftus Avenue and Second Street. In later years, it was moved to . . . — — Map (db m209686) HM
The Brewster School, also known as the Bouchie School, was located about twelve miles southwest of De Smet in an abandoned claim shanty. The shanty had thickness boards with no battens, so snow would blow through. There were six seats with a desk, a . . . — — Map (db m209687) HM
