Barbara Henrikson has kindly shared her family’s scrapbook with the Venersborg History Project. These stories and photos begin with the family’s departure from Sweden, making their way overseas and across the continent to settle here.
The Henriksons’ Settlers’ Story in lovely script, with fine hand-painted watercolors of local flowers
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The first few pages of the above hand-written history, here typed (but unfinished)
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Photographs of the Henrikson family in the early days of Venersborg
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More photos of the Henrikson family and neighbors growing up in Venersborg
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