Although some of the graves found near today's village may be from the Mesolithic or Neolithic era, most of the habitable land had not risen from the sea following the most recent Ice Age until the centuries around 2000 BC.

[3] For thousands of years, the inhabitants in the area were farmers, making their living off the fertile land which had formerly been below the sea level.

In 1539, under the reign of Gustav Vasa, a land register was made for Rasbo Hundred, in which Storvreta was mentioned.

In connection with the laga skiftet, an agrarian reform from 1827 aiming to create larger areas of arable land, which was carried out in Rasbo Hundred in 1851–1852, ten agricultural properties were recorded in Storvreta village.

In addition, there were a few smaller farms and torps (crofts) belonging to Storvreta, including a soldattorp for a tenement soldier.

As a result of the improved communications, Storvreta grew and transformed from an agrarian village into a centre for industries, the most important being furniture manufacture.

Johan Erik Blomqvist was the first of the village's industrialists; he moved to Storvreta in 1892 and initially manufactured furniture in his home.

In 1925, a desk manufactured by the company won a prize at the World's Fair in Paris, and following that, the Royal Court of Sweden and Nationalmuseum commissioned furniture from Blomqvist's.

[6] Other industries in 20th century Storvreta included manufacture of cinema furnishings, two smithies delivering tools and other metal products to the furniture makers and farmers in the area, a dairy and a brewery.

The property belongs to Uppsala University, which received the mill as a bequest from Queen Kristina in 1639, and then leased it out to millers.