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![Etne and the Etne delta around 1900.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/etne_2.jpg?itok=bfLAQc7X)
Etnedeltaet
During the latter half of the 1900s the big natural river deltas on Westland disappeared. Until the 1980s there was still a small, but significant remnant of the original river delta from the Etneelva river, but today most of this, too, is industrial land.
![“Prospectus of Frekhaug”. J.F.L.Dreier, 1812](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_295-3.jpg?itok=aGf5ib0l)
Frekhaug
Frekhaug has been a large farm with well-off owners through many generations. The main house, a two storey building with a hipped roof, must have been erected about 1780.
![Herlandsnesjane](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ost_19.jpg?itok=ziqPLTch)
Herlandsnesjane
Herlandsnesjane, a four-kilometre long peninsula in Lake Storavatnet in the middle of Osterøy, is well known among botanists. Here lies an unusually large and diverse bog.
![Kyrping at the turn of the 19th century](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_190.1.jpg?itok=mrZ32D0n)
Kyrping
The trading post down by the fjord at Kyrping does not belong to the oldest group of trading posts from the 1600s and 1700s. It was only after the liberalisation of the trading legislation that trade was established here.
![Fløksand - Tidal flats](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/meland_13.jpg?itok=XFwGTS7i)
![Odda around the turn of the former century, with the new Hotel Hardanger](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_398-2.jpg?itok=OKXQDlUB)
Odda- The tourist town
The pioneering tourists in the 1830s-40s brought a momentum in the tourist traffic to the fjord and mountain country Norway. At the time Odda was a hidden Shangri-La at the bottom of Sørfjorden; the farm and the church on the green headland at the fjord. But when the steamship traffic opened the fjord landscape for tourism, in a few years Odda parish in Søndre Bergenhus County became the focal point for travellers in West Norway.
![Boat engines, Norwegian Engine Museum in Skånevik](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_189_motormuseum_1_150.jpg?itok=CDwNdWQJ)
![Skånevik](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_189-5.jpg?itok=AnQc4WEU)
Skånevik- the trading post
There are only two buildings left of the old trading and guesthouse settlement in Skånevik. They are in the centre, close to the main road passing through the settlement. The other buildings that belonged to the place, the lodging house (“Holteriet”), the bakery, the courthouse, the boathouse and the sea house with the store, were pulled down in the last century.
![Tyssedal power station](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_397-1_obs.jpg?itok=jm_PI6LQ)
Tyssedal
Today Tyssedal appears like a classical industrial community, a picture of modern Norway from the turn of the former century until today. A/S Tyssefaldene was established in 1906, and on 1 May 1908 Tyssedal power station was put into operation. The work on the first stage of the facility was completed in a short time, with a work force of 500 men. They built water tunnels, regulation reservoirs, power station, penstocks, harbour, cableways, office buildings, houses and 6 km of power lines in the wild mountains above Odda to provide the new melting plant with power.
![“The Karla Tannery”, Valestrand](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_324-1.jpg?itok=sLMcAPbz)
Valestrandsfossen- tanning industry
Valestrand became a centre for the tanning industry in Osterøy; one of the old crafts that has developed into a local industry with many places of work. From the 1870s ever more ventures were started. Many of the large sea houses we see today around the bay have been places for tanning and leather enterprises.