Verla Groundwood and Board Mill

The Verla Groundwood and Board Mill is a well preserved 19th century mill village. It consists of a number of buildings, including the mill, board-drying plant, storehouses and the owner's residence.

The first groundwood mill at Verla was founded in 1872 by Hugo Nauman but was destroyed by fire in 1876. A larger groundwood and board mill, founded in 1882 by Gottlieb Kreidl and Louis Haenel, continued to operate until 1964.

Year	Decision	Comments
1996	Inscribed	Reasons for inscription

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Ingemar Eriksson (Sweden):
Verla is a rather small place in the forest. It´s about 150 km to go from Finnish capital Helsingfors.
Verla is a very well restored mill. It is small scale and easy to understand. The surroundings are nice. If you are intersted in industry heritage, this is good. Minor problems are that there is no connection with the social situation for the workers like some houses where people lived, some church and other social arrangements. The exhibitions in other languages than finnish is poor but nice books can be bought. One thing that may seem peculiar today is that the works seems to have been runned the last 10 years 1955-64 without profit just to make a socially acceptable exit so that workers could retire. That is only 50 years ago but would be impossible in todays fast and unresponisble economy.

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