These existed before the modern development, and one of their farmhouses has been transferred to the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History in Bygdøy.

[1] In Norwegian, the name Makrellbekken (Literally: Mackerel-stream) for many seems comical, if you realize that the fish mackerel does not live neither in streams or freshwater.

However, the name has nothing to do with the fish, but is a distortion of "Markskillebekken" (Literally: The cropland-divide-stream), the former boundary stream between the farms of Huseby, Voksen, Smedstad and Holmen.

A quarry was operated in Makrellbekken before and during the German occupation of Norway, and Soviet prisoners of war were forced to work there.

The Makrellbekken station is located under the bridge leading Sørkedalsveien across the suburban railway line.