Around 100 years ago, there was a whole community here at Karlsfors. There was a bank, a post office, a school and a store. The industrial community started with alum production as early as in the 18th century. The alum was for example used as an ingredient for red paint. In the middle of the 19th century the industry shifted to mainly produce lime for cement and soil improvement. Today you can only see the remains of the industry.
At most there were ten men employed at the Karlsfors limeworks. As they were farmers, lime production took place mainly in wintertime, when there was less work to be done on the farms. The lime extracted here was mainly used for soil improvement in farming. Only a small portion was used as mortar. Demand for lime fell off during the post-war years and lime production at Karlsfors was discontinued.