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more systematically and with greater care. However, her views were not heard. In order to prevent the destruction of the beautiful scenery at Stångehuvud, from 1916, with great persistence and lengthy negotiations with the landowners, she gradually began to buy up piece after piece of land, often through agents so as not to reveal that it was the same person who was the buyer. By 1920 she had managed to buy up the whole area, a total of about 18 hectares (44 acres), costing 55,000
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with the intention of preserving it for all time. At the same time, the Carl and Calla Curman
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a short distance outside the town, where the granite cliffs were sculpted by ice. By the early 1870s, quarrying had begun in Stångehuvud, which was hard on the Bohuslän cliffs at the time, with no regard for the area's unique nature. During summer after summer in the last decades of the 19th and
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during a few summer weeks in 1864, was invited to join them as a guide for the
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and one of the five founders of the women's association
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