Husula

Vehkalahti local history museum in Husula

Husula is a neighborhood in Hamina, Finland. It is located approximately 3 kilometres north from the town centre. Before the town of Hamina and municipality of Vehkalahti consolidated at the beginning of 2003, Husula was part of Vehkalahti. Together with the neighboring Salmenkylä, it comprises one of the biggest population centers in Hamina, with a population of nearly 2,000.

Husula has played a part in Finnish history. In the 18th century when Sweden and Russia were at war, Swedish King Gustav III and his army rested in Husula before they tried to attack Russian-occupied Hamina.

There are two cemeteries in Husula: one is the old graveyard of Vehkalahti and the other of Hamina. Highway 26 (which leads east to Lappeenranta) separates those two cemeteries, so that the Vehkalahti cemetery is on the northern side of the highway and the Hamina cemetery is on the south.

Sources

• Sjöström (2011), "Y-DNA and records of medieval land inheritance in Rolandh and Tepponen lineages of Vehkalahti, Finland", Foundations: Journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, volume 3 issue 6 (2011 July) pages 527..563