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About Hilma Swedahl
- Hilma Swedahl, née Wounsch (2 October 1870 – 2 July 1965) was a Swedish-American gold prospector and the founder of the Swedish tourist village of Alaska i Strömstad.Hilma Wounsch was born on the island of Syd-Hälsö, Strömstads kommun in Västra Götaland County, Sweden.
- She was the daughter of a fisher in Bohuslän.
- During the spring of 1896, she traveled to New York City, where she worked as a domestic.
- After four years, she left for Alaska and the Klondike Gold Rush.
- She joined a group of young people in Dawson with whom she reached the gold camp near Ruby, Alaska.
- She lived alone in the wilderness for fifteen years until she married John Swedahl, a gold prospector originally from Trondheim, Norway.
- The couple visited Sweden in 1912 and in 1928.
- After the last visit, Hilma Swedahl remained in Sweden, while her husband returned to the United States.
- During the 1930s, she founded the Alaska i Strömstad, a park and rock garden located on Norra Långöns naturreservat, an island and nature reserve located in an archipelago northwest of Stromstad.
- Largely built of stone, this tourist village was inspired by her experience while living in the state of Alaska.
- Hilma Swedahl died in 1965 and was buried in the churchyard at Skee church (Skee kyrka) in Strömstad.
- On her grave stone is carved her saying: "Don´t worry!".
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