Stenhamra

The largest settlement on the island, Stenhamra is home to a few thousand people, and has all the basic facilities needed. Here, you can find two schools, a library, a supermarket, a small boat harbor, and a pizzeria. The town is mostly known for its abandoned stone quarry that has given the village its name (Stenhamra is roughly translated to Stonehammer).
  The quarry, one of the largest of its kind in Sweden, employed workers that toiled around the clock. It was worked from 1884 until 1919 – providing the lion’s share of Stockholm’s stone work. Scores of workers died during those years, many of them in grisly accidents, others of tuberculosis. Today, the quarry has been left for nature to reclaim, and is mostly filled with dark water. Occasionally, film crews come here for the spectacular scenery, but otherwise wild animals, loners, and nosy kids are the only ones visiting the Stenhamra quarry today.