Mohed is a locality

Urban areas in Sweden

Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality. There are 1,940 localities in Sweden . They could be compared with census-designated places in the United States.A tätort in Sweden has a minimum of...

 situated in Söderhamn Municipality

Söderhamn Municipality

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, Gävleborg County

Gävleborg County

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, Sweden

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 with 416 inhabitants in 2005. It was the site for the orienteering competition known as O-Ringen

O-Ringen

The O-Ringen is an orienteering competition that takes place annually in different areas of Sweden. Orienteers from all over the world come to the competition...

 in 1981,2006 and will be the site of the 2011 competition from July 23 - 29.

It was during the period 1689-1908 center for the infantry regiment of Hälsingland

Hälsinge regemente

Hälsinge regemente , designations I 14, I 14/Fo 49 and I 14/Fo 21, was a Swedish Army infantry regiment that traced its origins back to the 16th century. It was disbanded in 1997...

. The regiment moved to [Gävle] and the old barracks was transformed into a tuberculosis

Tuberculosis

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 hospital from 1914. The hospital was closed down during the 1950:ies. A memorial stone was erected at the training grounds with the inscription "Mohed, Hälsinge regementes mötesplats 1689-1908".

During the period of 1729-1859 there was a linen

Linen

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 factory with its own quality stamp. Such a stamp was very uncommon to be given to a factory in Sweden, usually it was being held by the kings appointed in the region. During it most productive period the factory employed about 200 persons.

The stretch of road going by the school and church was built by British sailors during the World War II

World War II

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. The sailors was refuges from sunken ships that had been stranded on Swedish shores.