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1 Second railway station, 7 July 1935. 2 Workers’ hall, 1920s. Photo: LMM
Photo: LMM/Aatto Aho The hall of the local workers’association built in part as voluntary work by loggers
served as the headquarters of the Red Guards during the Finnish Civil War in 1918. In
The second railway station became necessary, when the train February 1918, the White Guards had a strong hold on Rovaniemi and the local work-
connection to Kemijärvi was constructed. The photo shows people ers’association did not get the hall back for their own use until 1920. The building burnt
waiting for the train transporting President Pehr Evind Svinhufvud down during the Lapland War in 1944, but a new hall was built at the site in 1949.
to arrive at the station.
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