Alatalo
Alatalo is one of the oldest houses in the village. The building dates to the 1920s. In October 1922, the so-called Alatalo’s treasure was found from the house’s field, which consisted of nine two-taler plate coins. They were tied together with root rope and weighed 19,5 kilograms. All the money is from the years 1710–1713. The find could have been the spoils of the Great Wrath.
Määttälänvaara school
In 1912, a public school was founded in Suininki’s Määttälänvaara, which operated in a rented room. The current school building was built in 1927. The school was closed in 2020.
Määttälänvaara Maamiesseura house
The Määttälä Maamiesseura has been operating since the 1950s.
Rantakallio
While ploughing at Rantakallio in Määttälänvaara at the end of the 19th century, Juho Kusti Alatalo found Stone Age objects: a flint arrowhead, and some quartz objects.
Rantatalo
Rantatalo was built around 1928 or 1929.
The church stones
In front of Ruumissaari, now called Lomasaari, there are two stones shaped like sugarloaf. The story says that a church boat would have collided with them once and several people drowned.
Lompsinsaari
The island is close to the so-called trench railway with the remains of an old Sámi settlement. The villagers have traditionally collected oven and sauna oven stones from the island.
Ruumissaari, today Lomasaari
Ruumissaari (corpse island) has functioned as a temporary burial ground for corpses in the summer during haymaking and during the rasputitsa period. The deceased were transported to the church to the cemetery only during good weather, i.e., winter weather. The priest, who visited during the kinkeri twice a year, would bless the bodies in the island.
Ruumissaari’s name has since been changed to Lomasaari (holiday island) at the request of the cottagers.
Sonninluoto
The islet got its name from the fact that sometimes bulls have swum to the island’s islet.
Youth pastime
The pastimes of young people in Määttälänvaara have been, for example, “piirinpyörijäiset”. There have been games, e.g., water shoe and ship loading. In winter, there were fewer amusements, but in autumn, a skating rink was built on the ice, where many people from far away always came. Bigger festivities in the village were organised by the school, e.g., in autumn there was a sobriety party where the whole village came. The activities of the Maamiesseura were also lively, especially after the wars.