Hälleviksstrand - society

Hälleviksstrand is a locality in Orust municipality on Sweden's west coast. Hälleviksstrand mentioned in written sources for the first time in 1617. Fish...
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Hälleviksstrand is a locality in Orust municipality on Sweden's west coast. Hälleviksstrand mentioned in written sources for the first time in 1617. Fishermen settled around the bay with its yachts and built huts on the seafront. During the 1700s great herring period grew fishing for herring and herring salting at the resort that attracted farmers from Orust inland. At the end of the 1800s the community grew further with the hot public baths and guest. The mountain above the foreshore was built and towards the beginning of the 1900s flourished society and with the advent of Hälleviksstrands lap.
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