Noormarkku, Finland. Ahlström’s unique historical industrial area is greatly valued. The Finnish Heritage Agency has included it in their listing of nationally significant built cultural heritage sites.
A. Ahlström has been granted the Satakunta medal for its work in preserving and maintaining the culturally and historically significant Noormarkku ironwork areas. Ahlström has also received an industrial heritage prize from the Finnish Industrial Heritage Society for turning the Makkarakoski sawmill into a museum and for constructing the Ahlström Voyage exhibition in 2015.
The earliest mention of Noormarkku in any sources is from 1402, when Finland’s first archdeacon, Heikki Maununpoika, donated his estate in Noormarkku to the archdeacon’s office of the Turku cathedral chapter. In the following centuries, the Noormarkku estates changed hands several times.
In 1795, the parent farms of Herrgård and Tommila, along with the six tax and augment farms and two sawmill plants attached to them, were transferred to Carl Constantin de Carnall, the adjutant general, who later became the governor of the province of Vaasa. De Carnall, who had acquired a lot of land, decided to build an ironworks on the Herrgård horse farm, and in 1806, the Swedish Board of Mines granted him the privilege of setting up one trip hammer and two furnaces. The Noormarkku Ironworks was the last ironworks set up in Finland under Swedish rule.
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