Olofsfors bruk
1762
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factory
The Leduån was dammed at three falls about five kilometers southeast of Nordmaling, and a complete ironworking settlement grew up around them. The financier John Jennings was granted the privilege for an ironworks here in 1762, on a site…
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- 1831
A school was built at the works, the first at Olofsfors. It served the community that had grown up around the ironworks, and it added teaching to the functions already gathered on the site.
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