[2] The three historic buildings housed commercial businesses beginning in an era when this unincorporated community was a settlement of Swedish immigrants.

It is not known when the first retail establishment was built here, by the Berg Hardware Store, the frame building furthest to the west, was constructed in 1875.

The Farmers Union Exchange had been formed after the Anderson and Nelson Store moved their business and their building north to Olds, Iowa.

It was converted into a stuga, a small Swedish cottage, by the museum so visitors could see what immigrants to this community left behind in the old country.

This article about a property in Henry County, Iowa on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.