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Although the show depicts the family as living here through Wilder's adulthood, in reality, they only lived here a few years. Walnut Grove may be the most recognized name of all the towns Wilder wrote about in her books (although it is the only town she did not mention by name) because Michael Landon's television series Little House on the Prairie of the 1970s and 1980s was set here. In 1874, when Wilder was seven years old, the family left their home near Pepin for the second time, and settled just outside Walnut Grove, Minnesota. Much of the surrounding countryside retains its open and undeveloped nature. Sunnyside School House has been moved to the site and the original post office used at nearby Wayside, Kansas, has also been moved to the location. The site includes a cabin modeled after the original Ingalls cabin. The state of Kansas has designated the childhood home of Laura Ingalls southwest of Independence as an historic site, which is open to visitors. Today, there is a facsimile log cabin at the site. Carrie Ingalls' birth is also recorded as being in Montgomery County, Kansas, in August 1870. It is the only quarter section in that area with no claim filed in 1870 (no claims could be filed until 1871, and the Ingalls' had returned to Wisconsin by then) and it is the only quarter section with a hand-dug well (which Pa told of digging shortly after their arrival there). The actual site of the Charles Ingalls house on Indian land was located in what is now the southeast corner of Section 36, Rutland Township, Montgomery County, Kansas. The reason for this rather large discrepancy is not known, although she may have misheard or mis-remembered 'fourteen' as 'forty'. It was, in fact, about 13 miles (21 km) from Independence, not 40 miles (64 km), though the surveying techniques of the day would in fact have measured it as being 14 miles (23 km). Laura had always heard from her family that the home was '40 miles from Independence', which would have put the house approximately where the town of Nowata, Oklahoma, is today. Within a year of settling, the government required the family to vacate, and they never returned. Independence, Kansas, is the location where the Ingalls family settled on the Osage Diminished Reserve from 1869 to 1870, and was at the center of the plot of the book, Little House on the Prairie. Pepin celebrates her life every September with traditional music, craft demonstrations, a 'Laura look-alike' contest, a spelling bee, and other events. Her birthplace is about seven miles (11 km) north of the village, and is marked by a replica cabin along the former WIS-183 at the Little House Wayside (near Lund, Wisconsin). Pepin, Wisconsin, was Wilder's birthplace.

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List of places appearing in the Little House on the Prairie books and TV series.

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