The mill was built in 1788. At the 1807 mill tax assessment, Jacob Larsson was the owner of the mill and he taxed for the grinding needs of 9 people. During the mill inventory in 1971-1972, the mill was assessed as a ruin and you can read the following note: "... only the stone body remains and all the wood is rotted down. According to the owner, a repair was due 40 years ago and they had procured wood, when the then owner suddenly said no and the wood was sold."

There has probably not been any grinding in the mill since the beginning of the 1910s. The owner was then Erhard Hammarström.

There was thus no repair in 1931-1932, but in 1981 – thus 50 years later – work began to restore the mill to its original condition. It was Ivan Olofsson (1912-1990) and his son Hilding and Bertil Broman, who in the following three years spent a large part of their time recreating the mill building.

Bertil Broman made drawings of all parts of the machinery and building. Tard was felled and sawn. The tree that became the mill shaft had grown at Stora Backa near Hammars. After square sawing, the shaft had a length of 5.6 meters and dimensions 40×40 cm. (15 3/4″). Every building and machine part had to be manufactured - and there were many things - from drive wheels and gears with all their cogs; there were wings, wind spires, mill funnels and much, much more. What this was all about was building a brand new mill in and on the old mill house.

In 1984, it was all finished and the first grinding could take place. Everything worked fine. There the mill now stood in all its glory and once again you could hear the whirring and grinding of the wings and the rhythmic roar of the millstones.

Source: Gosta Persson & Fårö pension association (SPF) Fårös mills