A sawmill was built in 1798 by Pittsford's Woodruff family about 275 feet north on Sugar Hollow Brook, a tributary of Furnace Brook. Around 1870, the Norse family replaced the mill and built a dam. An ice house was later added, using ice cut from the pond's impounded waters and sawdust from the mill for insulation. The name Kendrick Dam and Pond came from later owners. In 2014, the town of Pittsford dismantled the dam to reduce potential flooding and restore the natural flow of this important trout stream, removing the laid-up stone and impounded sediment while preserving parts of the foundations of the dam, mill, and ice house as evidence of the historic uses of Vermont's rivers and streams.