Site of the Ingalls Homestead 1880

This small sign at Homestead Road and Rose Lane, about a quarter mile north of the 1958 bronze on its boulder, is cast aluminum, four lines and an arrow beside the Dakota Territorial seal. Its lettering stands up from a sand mold, and the maker's mark in the corner reads Sewah Studios, the Marietta, Ohio, foundry E. M. Hawes founded in 1927 and named with his own name spelled backward. The firm pours molten aluminum into sand impressions of each sign and has turned out more than 100,000 markers. The year cast here is that of Pa's filing.

What the plaque says

Site of the Ingalls Homestead 1880. South Dakota Dept. of History

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ingalls Homestead and the De Smet Historic Homes — 0.4 mi
  The quarter section a mile from De Smet that Charles Ingalls filed on in 1880 and proved up in 1886, the house in town he built, and the cottonwoods he planted.

More markers nearby

• Charles and Caroline Ingalls Homestead — 0.3 mi
• De Smet Forest / De Smet — 0.5 mi
• St. Petri Lutheran Church — 1.1 mi
• Father Pierre Jean De Smet — 1.2 mi