The Sod House. Kathie Bell. Special to the Globe. Today, we think of them as the settler's last ditch alternative to wood and brick structures, but 140 or 150 years ago that was not necessarily ...

Sod houses were once common starter homes for settlers staking their claims. The Homestead Act, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, gave away as much as 160 acres to each family that lived ...

Little House on the Prairie EDINBURG, N.D. -- Stepping over the threshold of the Edinburg sod house is a trip back in time. Members of the community have furnished the sod house with late 19th and ...

For volunteers with the Sandhills Journey National Scenic Byway Visitors Center, building a sod house has been a dream for a long time. Now it’s a reality.

ALINE, Okla. — “The truest form of the remaining Plains history today is the sod house,” says Renee Trindle, curator of Sod House Museum, located along Oklahoma 8 about halfway between Cleo ...

The sod house was where the first services for the Pierce Congregational Church were held. We had some pictures taken in 1936 before the soddy was torn down.

ALINE, Okla. -- The last-remaining sod house, which was built by a homesteader in the Oklahoma Land Run, still stands in Aline Okla. It was built in 1894 by Marshal McCully," said Cory Smith, sod ...

From their Stanton Tower apartment, June and Albert Anson have a good view of Fremont.

A sod house in Eustis still stands as a reminder of a successful school project. We recently caught up with Dan Widick, who taught school in the Eustis-Farnam school district for 40 years.

The Sod House Museum, a longtime fixture along Interstate 80 at Gothenburg, went up for sale last year. Skip to main content Skip to main content. You are the owner of this article. Edit ...

SANFORD, Minn. -- Read a few entries in the guest book and you'll know Stan and Virginia McCone have a hit on their hands. The McCones own the Sod House Bed and Breakfast and encourage visitors to ...