History+of+Hamfield


 * History of Hamfield** Mayor Austin Hammersmith
 * Hamfield was founded March, 1562, by Austin Hammersmith (Born January 6. 1514 – Died September 28. 1571). The town was originaly called Hammerfield, but they changed it to Hamfield in ** **1689. Hi****s visions for the town made** **him a good first mayor. The town hall is in center of the town, at that time everything was build around it. When Austin founded Hammerfield, the population where about 100 citizens.**


 * The main resources for the town was fishing, and they sold a lot to the other towns around the village.**
 * In 1833 they were colonized by Norway. But they became a part of England again in 1883, 50 years later.**

**In 1915 it happend a terrible disease. The Salmonella-germ came and they had to slaughter all the animals. This wasn’t good for Hamfield, because they needed meat to make the popular Austin-Ham. They imported meat from Norway, because they needed quality-meat, and Norway had the best meat in the world. After a few years, they got their own animals, and didn’t need to import from Norway, and then in 1929, it happend a big crash in the stockmarked **. Further reading; Education in Hamfield or Back to front page 
 * In the first worldwar they were immune, but during the Second Worldwar, they had a central role. They bombed a german boat with enough gunpower to blow up the whole city of London.**

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