There is an old barn here that probably originates from this was a croft/smallholding between 1850 – 1910. Two generations lived at this small place. They grew some potatoes, but everyone living here were fishermen. The last crofters here (Ola and Paulina) had many children who all died at a young age, just one lived until he was 30. In 1910, Kattaberget was purchased as an additional land for Sveet (Svebakk), a home right above here owned by Jon and Olava Kvam.

There is a story that portrays what life was like here: There were hard times and the eldest wife lived long after the husband died, then in the poor house. While the husband still lived, he and another man went to the Stjørnafjorden to fish for herring one autumn. The fishing had been poor here in the fjord, but further south fishing was good. They left with their boat and fishing gear. -However, as it turned out, this autumn the fishing was not great in the Stjørnafjorden. Just after they left, there was a large influx of herring in the fjord here.

The wife found 2 fishing yarn in the boathouse that were in such poor condition that the men had left them behind. On low tide, the wife went out and set the yarn, harvesting the herring at the next low tide. When the men returned in late autumn, the herring had left the fjord here as well. But the wife had salted two barrels of herring from the non traditional fishing.

Litlmarka and Holmsveet were two farms situated west of Kattaberget. The places were sold to Anton Grøn (Kvam) and added to Kvamsholmen as independent farms in 1865.