The following location was a new one for me. It was yet another former sawmill area, one of several ones scattered around Finland, which used to live from its forests.
This one was founded in 1917 and became a rather large one. In its peak it employed 140 people, produced almost 60 000 m3 of lumber and made a yearly revenue of 33 million Finnish Marks.
The sawmill was still doing good in the early 1980’s, but in 1989 it was already considered outdated and went bankrupt. The sawmill buildings stood idle for several years before vanishing one after another.
In the latest aerial photos I saw, the power station and chimney still stood. I considered the power station an interesting location to explore and headed there.
Unfortunately the aerial photos were as outdated as the sawmill. What remained was the old, preserved chimney. Turns out that the power station had been demolished back in the early 2010’s.
Oh well…