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Sod houses were a popular construction choice in the early 1900s by the early homesteaders to Saskatchewan and were similar to an earth sheltering type of house. Whereas many earth sheltering houses were built into hills, a 'soddie' had the base dug down about 3 feet (0.91 m) below the residence square footage area. A layer of buffalo, oxen or ...
A sod farm structure in Iceland Saskatchewan sod house, circa 1900 Unusually well appointed interior of a sod house, North Dakota, 1937. The sod house or soddy [1] was a common alternative to the log cabin during frontier settlement of the Great Plains of Canada and the United States in the 1800s and early 1900s. [2]
Addison Sod House [6] 1911 (completed) 2003 Kindersley: A well-preserved and rare surviving example of a sod building, which was an important prairie form of construction and used extensively in the tall-grass regions Batoche [7] 1872 (establishment)
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Along with the stone wall, a three-room sod house, built from sod cut out of the surrounding grasses, was completed in 1986 with help from others in the Smiley area. More recently, the wall has been kept maintained by Triston Mitchell Mchelone.
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Sod house. It features the Highland One Room Schoolhouse [3] a 1913 Canadian Pacific Railway Caboose, [4] a reconstructed sod house, the Delorme family's one-room log cabin, extensive indoor and outdoor installations of numerous Cree and settler archives, artifacts and war memorabilia, [5] including 'Sergeant Bill'—"Saskatchewan's most famous goat".
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