Alvdal

Alvdal lies where the Folla valley meets the Glomma in Norway's inland highlands. Mining reshaped the district in the eighteenth century. Ore was found at nearby Folldal in 1745, and mining began in 1748; smelting houses were built in Alvdal, where forests supplied charcoal for the furnaces. In 1826 the Folldal mine was sold to the Røros copper works.