Oleona, originally spelled Oleana,[2][3][4] is an unincorporated community in Potter County, Pennsylvania, United States[1] established by the Norwegian violinist Ole Bull.

[5] During his stay in the United States, the violinist Ole Bull purchased a large piece of land in Potter County, Pennsylvania, in 1852.

Instead, he now devoted himself to the New Norway project high up in the Allegheny Mountains, which Henrik Wergeland had written a beautiful poem about.

[2][9] Bull's contribution to the operating company was $25,000 because everything from roads and homes to a church and a school, a mill, and canals were needed here.

In the neighboring county there was a foundry, and the company hoped for a profitable government contract for casting 10,000 cannons.

"We are here to found a new Norway, dedicated to freedom and independence, and protected by the glorious flag of America," he declared at the inauguration on September 8, 1852.

In the colony there were twelve deaths the first winter and meager times, while Bull dreamed about buying an abandoned iron works and planned a polytechnic school with professors from Europe, as well as its own sanatorium.

The sheriff in a small town seized Bull's violin due to an unpaid hotel bill of $403, but he was strongly criticized for this by The New York Times.

However, when it gradually became known that there was no arable land, Ditmar Meidell wrote the satirical song "Oleana" about the attempt to create a model Nordic society in America.