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5 unusual facts about Burr Oak


Burr Oak, Iowa

Burr Oak is the missing link in the Little House series, as Laura never published a book about her stay there (although Old Town in the Green Groves book by Cynthia Rylant describes this missing year).

The village is known as one of the former homes of Laura Ingalls Wilder (author of the Little House on the Prairie books) (1876–1877).

Ernest F. Storandt

==Biography== Storandt was born on July 2, 1882 in Burr Oak, Wisconsin.

Grace Ingalls

Grace Pearl Ingalls Dow (May 23, 1877, Burr Oak, Iowa, USA – November 10, 1941) was the fifth and last child of Caroline and Charles Ingalls.

Old Town in the Green Groves

Having endured several years of poor crops and mounting debts in Walnut Grove, the Ingalls family decides to sell their farm and move to Burr Oak, Iowa where Pa has a job offer to help to run a hotel in town.


Alsip, Illinois

The Alsip area is home to two predominantly African-American cemeteries, Burr Oak and Restvale cemeteries, which are the resting places of many Chicago blues musicians (including Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon and Dinah Washington), athletes (Jimmie Crutchfield), and other celebrities.


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