 In the 18th and 19th centuries there used to be five farmhouses and an older church on the terp, including a farmhouse called Groot-Wytsma, which was the "state" (family home) of the influential Wytsma family, who owned many properties in and around Burdaard.In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most of the terp was destroyed, to use the fertile soil it contained to fertilize farm fields.In 1931, Groot-Wytsma was demolished.