Named for Flint House, on the land of which it was situated, it is the town's major water supply,[3] with Tower Road Well being the supplemental source.

The DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, built on the former estate of Julian de Cordova, sits on the southern shores of the pond.

Henry David Thoreau's college classmate Charles Stearns Wheeler built a hut at Flints Pond in 1836.

[5] Thoreau asked for permission to build a cabin on the pond, but the Flint family denied his request due to his accidentally having caused a fire near Fairhaven Bay.

[3][6] Local residents purchased a parcel of land beside the pond in 1958 to prevent development on it occurring.