Laura and Almanzo Wilder were married on this date in 1885 in South Dakota. The couple made famous in the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder later moved to Missouri’s Ozarks, where they farmed on 200 acres, according to Biography.com.
Photo credit: Highsmith, Carol M, photographer. Replica of “The Little House in the Big Woods” at the Laura Ingalls Wilder House, Pepin, Wisconsin. United States Wisconsin Pepin, None. [Between 1980 and 2006] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2011630628/.
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