Heart Prairie and Sugar Creek

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ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="5" VSPACE="3"></U></A></div> <div>  two settlements where many of the first emigrants from Holla settled: Heart Prairie and Sugar Creek. In Heart Prairie it was <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" >Ole Anundsen Lunde</FONT> with his wife and five children who established themselves first, and in fact they were the first settlers to come to Walworth County.  Later he is known mainly as <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" >Ole Andersen</FONT>. The following year saw the arrival of his brother <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" >Hans A. Milebon</FONT> with his wife <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" >Kari</FONT>.   A larger group sailed from Skien on the boat “Salvator” and arrived in New York harbour on 4th July 1844. Among them was <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" >Hans Arvesen Vale</FONT> with wife and two sons.  They bought 80 acres in Heart Prairie and paid 400 dollars for it. A contemporary letter tells that “One day's pay, for those who worked for money, was 50 cents”. </div> <div>      <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Cottage" >I</FONT>n the Autumn of that year <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" >Arvesen</FONT> built a log cabin on the property. Many Norwegians stayed there temporarily, until they built their own property or moved on. It was otherwise normal to build sodhouses or dug-ins in the early days on the prairie.   <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" >Hans Tommesen</FONT>, among others did exactly this. </div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Times New Roman" >  </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Cottage" >   I</FONT>n that first winter of 1844-45 he, his wife <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" >Marie Jonsdatter Grønstein</FONT> and their four children lived in it. But <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Times New Roman" ><A HREF="id119.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sodhouses made by early settlers Jord"><U><IMG SRC="22a87e40.jpg" border=0 width="391" height="228" ALT="Sodhouses made by early settlers - - Jordhytter fra den første tiden." ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="15" VSPACE="15"></U></A></FONT>when the spring came snakes started creeping in and the family had to take refuge in the Arvesens' house and there they stayed until they had built their own log cabin!</div> <div>      <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Cottage" >I</FONT>n 1847 there were about fifteen or sixteen families from Holden in Telemark living in Heart Prairie, among them <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" >Gunnar Halvorsen Vala</FONT>.  There is evidence that brothers <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" >Nils, Steen and Ole Haatvedt</FONT> (Holla 1, page 451) also used <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" >Arvesen</FONT>'s cabin but they were in Heart Prairie only for a short while. <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" >Nils </FONT>was married by then and the group also included littlesister, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" >Kari Knudsdatter</FONT>.</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B> </b></FONT><B> </b><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Rounded MT Bold" ><A HREF="id39.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mt.Morris"><U><B></b></U></A></FONT><B>                                                                                </b></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B> </b></div> </td> </tr></table></body>