Since Maud Hart Lovelace’s Betsy-Tacy series was largely autobiographical, the houses that Betsy and Tacy lived in actually exist. The two Hill Street homes are actually on Center Street in the town of Mankato, not Deep Valley. The Betsy-Tacy Society has purchased these houses and intends to restore and preserve them to depict the era that Lovelace so accurately and lovingly described in her books.