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![From Ingahogg.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvinnherad.jpg?itok=dmrfeaRp)
Ingahogg
At nearly 1000 metres over sea level, on the north side of INGAHOGG mountain, the remains of a soapstone quarry have been discovered. It is said, according to the Sagas, that Inga collected the big soapstone that lies in front of the Åkra Church from here.
![The dwelling house at Rød, Kvinnherad](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_195-2.jpg?itok=0KnxvR7P)
Rød
In 1969 Sigurd and Margreta Dønhaug donated a collection of around 170 historical cultural objects to Kvinnherad municipality. They wanted their gift to become the start of a farm collection in Uskedalen. And that is what happened.
![Sunde, Kvinnherad](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_194_xxx.jpg?itok=7zdyKxkc)
Sunde
In 1852 Haktor Thorsen erected two large warehouses on one of his farms in Sunde and started trading and salting herring. This was the start of an industrial adventure that made Sunde into one of the first industrial communities in Kvinnherad.
![Hauga House at Tveito, Kvinnherad](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_195-4.jpg?itok=i7qSkBTz)
![Ground up bedrock in the Valen Fault, seen under a microscope.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvi_31.jpg?itok=Hhx1ihCW)
![Geithidleren, Årsand, Kvinnherad](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_200-1.jpg?itok=oTokwPdx)
Årsand
Below a south facing, steep rock at Årsand, there is one of the strangest ancient relics in the whole of Hordaland. The jutting rock wall forms a shallow flagstone – Geithilderen. Parts of the rock wall are covered by a light lime crust and on the crust figures have been painted in golden and rusty red colours.
![Prospect of Alvøen, Bergen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_262-x.jpg?itok=LxWnEEWq)
Alvøen
Alvøen is one of the oldest industrial places in Norway. As early as the 1620s a gunpowder mill was built here. The place itself was well situated for industrial activity, lying only 100 m from the waterfall, which provided power for the mill, and a good harbour wherefrom the products were shipped. The success of the gun-powder mill varied in the 1600s and 1700s, but what made Alvøen best known was its paper production.
![Detail from smokehouse, Arnatveit, Bergen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_265-2.jpg?itok=q06FVq1z)
Arnatveit
On the farm of Arnatveit, high up on the slope above the highway, an old smokehouse remains standing in the courtyard of the main farm property, in the place of the old common courtyard. Today this farm lies at the outskirts of a large housing estate. Most of the farmland of the other farm properties has been sold to benefit the city’s need of sites for the new community of Arna.
![At lake Gaupåsvatnet.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/nvh_334_gaupas_koronitt_150.jpg?itok=Wq7ffNPu)
![](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/berg_12_0.jpg?itok=hv7XxFE6)