De Smet is a town in and the county seat of Kingsbury County, South Dakota, United States. The population was one,089 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town features a total area of 1.16 sq. Miles (3 km²), all of it land. De Smet has been assigned the code 57231 and therefore the FIPS place code 16260.
Since 1971, De Smet has hosted a pageant, control over many weekends in July, to honor Laura Ingalls Wilder. 5 of her classic very little House books were based mostly on her experiences in and around the community. The story of however Charles Ingalls and his mate King of Great Britain arrived in First State Smet in 1879 by coated wagon from Walnut Grove, Minnesota, is told by a cast of thirty in an open-air theater near the old Ingalls homestead and therefore the Surveyors’ House.
Nearby square measure Silver Lake and therefore the huge Slough, locations mentioned in her books. Reminders of First State Smet’s pioneer past square measure evident throughout the city, together with the primary Congregational Church, where the Ingallses worshipped. Laura, husband Almanzo Wilder, and female offspring Rose left First State Smet in 1894 to measure on a farm within the mountain chain close to Mansfield, Missouri. There Laura Ingalls chronicled her First State Smet recollections in such works because the Long Winter, very little city on the grassland, and These Happy time of life. Several residents in First State Smet have created a special effort to be told the Ingalls story in hopes of aiding inquiring tourists every summer.
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