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![Einstapevoll](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_175-2z.jpg?itok=6JWMCjE3)
Einstapevoll- the farm
Einstapevoll (from einstape: “bregne” (fern)) lies on the west side of the Tittelsnes peninsula. Up to 1831 the farm was a vicarage belonging to Stord parish. The priests had leasing rights. Land rent and other fees from the farm was part of their salaries.
![Haugsbø](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_176-1.jpg?itok=GUepE-uA)
Haugsbø
The single unit farm without a road to it, Haugsbø, is situated on the east side of the Tittelsnes peninsula facing Ålfjorden. As far back as the Middle Ages the farm has probably belonged to Stord Parish, up to the 1800s. In 1590 it was thought to be abandoned, but in 1601 Mickel Hougsbøe paid a tithe on the farm.
![Sæbøtunet in 1934](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_186-1.jpg?itok=rg3jiQ5i)
Sæbøtunet
When you come into the well-tended farm steading at Sæbø just above Etne centre, you get the impression of a Sunnhordland farm from well before the time of the tractor; from the time of the horse and the scythe. The hamlet at Sæbø, one of the farms neighbouring to Gjerde, was taken over by Sunnhordland Folk Museum in 1938.
![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.
![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.
![Espevær around 1915, at “Biekronå”.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_204-1.jpg?itok=Nv-R-Syf)
Espevær- the Trading Post
In the sea west of Bømlo lies Espevær, half an hour’s rowing trip across the sound from Vespestadvågen. This is a well-run and well-maintained local community, established on the back of the rich herring fisheries in the 1850s. It is fishermen, skippers and the tradesmen who have made their mark on the culture in Espevær, with their contacts to the south towards Haugesund and across the North Sea to the British Isles.
![From Rubbestadneset.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_205_wartsila_150.jpg?itok=nem7PIQE)
![Sagvåg in the early 1900s, with the gate saw and the shipyard to the right in the picture.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_210-1.jpg?itok=Vt4qxW9t)
Sagvåg
The pit saw on the property of the farm Valvatna, is the origin of the name Sagvåg. The sawmill is mentioned as early as 1564. The name of the place at that time was Fuglesalt, but soon there is only talk of Saugvog.
![The farm steading of Årskog.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_217-2.jpg?itok=jDL5OgDI)
Årskog
Årskog farm is situated in a typical coastal landscape in a gentle terrain that slopes down from the outlying heaths down towards the fjord. The farm steading exists as it was in the 1800s. In 1980 the two brothers, Lars and Olai Årskog donated the farm with all its contents of tools and interior decoration, for museum purposes.
![The main house at Nedrevåge, Tysnes](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_221_y.jpg?itok=6T-APezc)
Nedrevåge
Vågsbygdo was severely hit by landslides and rock falls in the decades around 1700, in addition, the rivers transported masses of loose sediment, both large stones and gravel. A lot of what slid down from the Vågsliene (slopes at Våg) collected in Neravåge. It was so bad that the damage “never again can be remedied or restored”, it was said in 1670.