These 9 Houses In South Dakota From The 1930s Will Open Your Eyes To A Different Time
Since we just featured some awesome antique stores here that have things from decades back offering a small view into what it might have been like to live at that time, I thought it’d be interesting to dive a little deeper and check out some old photographs from the 1930s of houses here in South Dakota. These homes, from the poorest types hit hard by the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, to fanciful mansions in cities, to the temporary dwellings of those with high hopes of making it rich, provided shelter to all walks of life that tried to make it here in the state’s earlier days.
Everything is a lot different now, and it’s hard to fully understand what it was like then, so let’s take a trip back in time…
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1. A sod house - common for most of the original homesteaders - in Pennington County. 1936
6. This literal mobile home was the only shelter this family had. They were on their way west in search of better work, struggling from the Great Depression. 1936
Leah moved to North Dakota when she was 12 years old and has traveled from the Red River Valley to the badlands and many places in between. She loves small-town life and currently enjoys living on a small farm in the ND prairie. She's always had a passion for writing and has participated in novel writing challenges such as NaNoWriMo multiple times. Her favorite part about this job is recognizing small businesses that deserve a boost and seeing the positive affect her articles can have on their traffic, especially in rural areas that might have otherwise gone overlooked.
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