LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - 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. The work started in ...

Most people think of sod houses as those lived in by pioneers. Their basic living quarters were made of dirt walls. To me, it didn’t sound like a very pleasant life. Susan Davis (Courtesy photo) I was ...

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 ...

Ecologists in Nebraska are trying to find out what the Great Plains looked like when homesteaders settled there in the 19th century. To do that, they're working with a team of archaeologists and ...

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 Springs ...

It wasn’t a windswept prairie. No pioneers were working to build a home in which they’d spend cold winters and hot summers. Instead, the grass was green and short and a group of volunteers were ...

ALINE, Okla. — The sound of the dulcimer will be showcased in traditional songs during the Christmas Open House 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, at the Sod House Museum. Holiday music will be performed by ...

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 the case. Of, course wood was scarce and brick factories ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - During a visit to rural Comstock, we got a chance to visit the Dowse Sod House, and it has plenty of history surrounding it. “This house was built on my great granddad’s ...