Kärrgruvan

Most of the houses and buildings in Kärrgruvan are located along highway 69 (actually riksväg 69, also known as Hedemoravägen, former länsväg 270) towards Hedemora and along the road Linnévägen.

Its centrum is where highway 69 and Linnévägen meet and consists of a pizzeria, a gas station and a nowadays disused grocery shop.

A waterwheel a couple of kilometers away from there, called Polhemshjulet,[2] ran the pumps with a lever mechanism.

The museum also shows how the earliest method for extracting iron ore worked; to break the mountains by using gunpowder, nitroglycerine and dynamite.

During the 1960s the majority of Kärrgruvan's population was settled in five apartment buildings, together called Bolagshagen,[4] a rare and probably unique name which can be translated as The company pasture.