The
Lapinsärkkä graveyard
Before the border was closed in the 1920s, Rimpi buried its dead in
Akonlahti. When this was no longer possible, the village established
its own Orthodox graveyard.
Gold
Well or Gold Spring Mention is made as early as 1789, in Christfrid Ganader's Mythologica
Fennica, of a "Gold Well" whose waters flow into both the Gulf of
Bothnia and the White Sea. The spring has a number of underground
"fountains" which constantly shift the sand at the bottom. According
to Rimpi tradition, anyone who eats a frog found in the well will
receive a golden treasure.
Water
mill There is a restored water mill along the river that has its source
in the gold spring.
The
Juortana house In the account of his fourth field trip, Lönnrot wrote: "I
intend to finish this account of my journey here in Juortana, and
I have a very good reason, indeed. When I arrived here, I noticed
that the sole of my boot was wholly worn out."