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At the west banks of cape Hankoniemi, southernmost corner of Finland, there's a small, hidden relic. History of the ironworks of Skogby is related to Fagervik and Billnäs. Their owner, mr. Carl Billsten the younger built the ironworks in Skogby in 1686. With different turns production of iron continued until 1904. Since then, the place has been more or less abandoned. A century of no use, and still, there are many old but good shaped houses left. Nobody just uses them. New road lining has taken the ironworks area even further away from civilization, so it will probably continue spending extremely peaceful years.

The ironworks have also given the name to a steam sawmill of later times at the opposite (eastern) shore of the cape - the sawmill of Skogby. Yes, there is another place called Skogby some 10 kilometers east of the ironworks. It's still resided today despite the sawmill being shutdown.

	The main sight of Skogby is this blast furnace. It's a very rare thing to find, one of it's kind existing in Finland.
	Yes the board of antiquities has fixed this furnace in 1988, but currently it's not really in excellent shape.
	Same as seen from the bridge crossing the brook.
	The furnace was built in 1789 and it's of so called French type with granite stone foundations and red brick top section. Kind of "cotter pins" strengthen the stone foundations.
	Stone in focus.
	Brick construction aside the blast furnace.
	Stone has been advantaged also in water ducting constructions. A very little stream continues to go through the duct, but it wouldn't have the power to move anything now that the dam shutters are released.
	This "Hollming" blast stower installation has been operated with steam. So iron blowing became independent of changes in water flow in 1856, when these modern equipment were acquired.
	The historic machines lie rusting without weather shelter.
	A special curiosity near the dirt road. A cold cellar masoned of slag bricks. Having too little time like usually we didn't check this out, but there should be atleast 20 more of them all around the area.

The main sight of Skogby is this blast furnace. It's a very rare thing to find, one of it's kind existing in Finland.

Yes the board of antiquities has fixed this furnace in 1988, but currently it's not really in excellent shape.

Same as seen from the bridge crossing the brook.

The furnace was built in 1789 and it's of so called French type with granite stone foundations and red brick top section. Kind of "cotter pins" strengthen the stone foundations.

Stone in focus.

Brick construction aside the blast furnace.

Stone has been advantaged also in water ducting constructions. A very little stream continues to go through the duct, but it wouldn't have the power to move anything now that the dam shutters are released.

This "Hollming" blast stower installation has been operated with steam. So iron blowing became independent of changes in water flow in 1856, when these modern equipment were acquired.

The historic machines lie rusting without weather shelter.

A special curiosity near the dirt road. A cold cellar masoned of slag bricks. Having too little time like usually we didn't check this out, but there should be atleast 20 more of them all around the area.