In the beginning there were only the barrel houses that the busy post horses had a chance to have a rest by. In 1860 an independent post stations was built to Maidla. It was closed down in 1931 when the post service stopped using horses, the station has...
Mäksa manor by the river Emajõgi was first mentioned in 1555. Among its many owners has also been Nikolai von Essen, a man who is important because he founded the first farm dairy house in Estonia. Von Essens' 19th century family cemetery sets west from...
The current chapel is the third on the same spot. The first one was finished in 1689,
it was in 1764 or in 1796 that the building of the second one started. What became
of them is not sure. There are engravings of both of the numbers in the chapel...
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