Silver Lake (Kingsbury County, South Dakota)
Silver Lake is a reclaimed lake located immediately east of De Smet, on the north side of U.S. Highway 14.
History
Caroline Ingalls named the lake for the silvery appearance of its surface.[1]
Silver Lake was the lake about which Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote in her novel "By the Shores of Silver Lake". The Ingalls home (currently, a museum) and Surveyor's House are very close to it. The lake was drained into nearby Lake Henry in the 1920s and the lakebed was used for farming and rubbish dumping. A portion of the lake has since filled again with water.
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