Finnish farm Kvarntorp

Open every day. 11.00 - 18.00
from june to last of august.

Grain&pork, waffles, home batch takes cookies,
 coffee, lemonade, ice-cream.

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Because of difficult relations in Finland many Finnish people emigrated to central Sweden and Norway during 16th and 17th century. The resident themselves in forest rich wastelands that the afterwards could cultivate through swidden-burning.

In the north-western parts of Värmland the Finnish ways was kept until the beginning of the 20th century. The information about the finding farm Kvarntorp that goes to find in old documents and papers is scattered. Nevertheless this farm is on of the oldest and most important in the Värmlands Finnish district.

With its situation at the wide northern bottom of Kroksjön, and with access to hydroelectric power in Kvarnälven, that leads from Kroksjön to Lomsen, had the farm doubtless a big importance for the surroundings. When the first Finnish immigrant began to cultivate the land on this place, no one knows. One can however on good bases assume that this happened on 17th century, at the time when the most Finnish settlers came to this land.

Kvarntorp is a good example on a bigger Finnish Farm. The main building's oldest part is the smoke house, sows called after that footwear stone loose oven, that occupies a big part of the room.. The stove lacks footwear stone and is constituted of a smoke oven off same kind that in a Finnish smoke sauna. The smoke goes free out and overall itself during the ceiling, and is too much smoke open, a hatch is opened in the ceiling. On the smoke oven stands that year 1774 and the table is dated 1794. On other side of the room and a kåve, now cuisines, lies the Swede cottage, with pieces of furniture from 1910's, then also the house's extraneous was rebuild among other thing with the current first twig. Further exists on the farm a pair outhouse long buildings, mill, sauna, forge. Behind the smoke cottage, an older foundation of a house exists, as a witness about that a smoke house has existed on the place many years earlier.. Right before the main building in early days it was an outhouse long building in old style, but this is now torn.

The farm concentrations of pieces of furniture, household utensils and tools, the oldest from 18th century, gives a good understanding about a Finnish farm in older time.

In the diary notes from your travel in Värmland's finding lands years 1821 tells Carl Axel Gottlund: "from Spettugnen I traveled further, going to Kvarntorp (Myllylä),. Here, a deaf and mute daughter existed. I typed always up the old Finnish family names in the farms, which already begun on to seem to be forgotten, in order to can to introduce them in the church book. In the church tenth length for years 1667 for S Lekvattnets home man exists the intakes a person wide name Erik Myller. In view of that mill, as delicate in the farm's vicinity can one very probably assume that this Erik Myllermay be set in connection with first settlers and the name deals to Kvarntorp (Myllylä).

The farm's old documents give no cohesive picture of the farm's history. The oldest document that exists preserved is an old estate inventory from 1809 after died Jan Nilsson, Kvarntorp, with the widow Sofia Henriksdotter and 4 small children. During the years 1840-1855 the changed farm owners several times. A Lars's Henriksson sold the farm to Henrik Larsen, Smedtorpet, Brandval Finnskog in Norway, for 2000 riksdaler R.m with access March 14, 1856. Henrik Larsen received legal title on Kvarntorp 1858 and moved there same year. He had been included marriages years 1830 and had in his marriage with Lisbet Olsen 8 children, 4 boys and 4 girls. A part of the children was adult then the moved to Kvarntorp. Two off the girls travelled to America, a son to meadow and a daughter to Austmarka in Norway. Henrik Larsen each born 1811 and died 1903, the wife died already 1878.

The daughter Johanna became after the mothers death the household mistress on Kvarntorp, and then when she died 1924 her daughter Klara Gustava Persson the household mistress and the owner of Kvarntorp. Clear Persson was born 1876 and died 1950. Through purchases of heritage lots and through wills she became the owners to the farm.