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The Laura Ingalls Wilder House is a historic house museum at 3060 Highway A in Mansfield, Missouri. Also known as Rocky Ridge Farm, it was the home of author Laura Ingalls Wilder from 1896 until her death in 1957. The author of the Little House on the Prairie series, Wilder began writing the series while living there. The house, together with ...
Rocky Ridge Farm was eventually expanded to about 200 acres (80.9 ha) and was a productive poultry, dairy, and fruit farm. Wilder's lifetime love of Morgan horses was indulged, and he also kept a large herd of cows and goats. Having learned a hard lesson by focusing on wheat farming in South Dakota, the Wilders chose a more diversified approach ...
They diversified Rocky Ridge Farm with poultry, a dairy farm, and a large apple orchard. Wilder became active in various clubs and was an advocate for several regional farm associations. She was recognized as an authority in poultry farming and rural living, which led to invitations to speak to groups around the region.
Rose Wilder Lane (December 5, 1886 – October 30, 1968) ... spaced between sojourns to Paris and her parents' Rocky Ridge Farm in Missouri.
They remained in the area for the next 60 years and established Rocky Ridge Farm, a large, successful poultry, dairy, and fruit farm on the outskirts of town. Today, their unique 10-room farmhouse is a National Historic Landmark, and the home of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home and Museum, which attracts thousands of visitors to Mansfield each ...
In 1894, the Wilder family settled on Rocky Ridge Farm in Mansfield, Missouri, where Laura and her husband, Almanzo, will live for the rest of their lives. It is during the journey to Missouri that Laura starts documenting her observations in personal journals, which become source material for her Little House on the Prairie books.
Richard Gere, His Family Spend Time On Farm Enjoying ‘Basic Pleasures’ Of Nature After Hospitalization As a U.S. citizen, Silva revealed that she voted in a U.S. election for the first time ...
Little House on Rocky Ridge (1993), illus. David Gilleece [14] Little Farm in the Ozarks (1994), illus. David Gilleece [15] In the Land of the Big Red Apple (1995) On the Other Side of the Hill (1995) Little Town in the Ozarks (1996) New Dawn on Rocky Ridge (1997) On the Banks of the Bayou (1998) Bachelor Girl (1999)