Verla
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How it came to be
In 1872 Hugo Neuman founded the first groundwood mill on the west bank of the Verlankoski rapids in the Kymi river valley of south-eastern Finland. Money troubles and a fire in 1876 closed it.
In 1882 Gottlieb Kreidl and Louis Haenel opened a larger mill with an adjoining board mill. Most of the mill buildings and workers' houses date from 1885-1902, and about 50 buildings survive. The Kymmene company bought the mill in 1908.
Production stopped on 18 July 1964, when the last of the old workers retired, and the machines and products were left where they stood. The mill opened as a museum of board making in 1972 and was inscribed in 1996. On the rock face above the rapids is a prehistoric painting of hunting and fishing.
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