It was established in 1630, when Karlskoga socken were split into two new entities.
Various items that is kept at this site were donated by the influential Linroth family.
[2] In 1854, more than 200 emigrants from Bjurtjärn settled in Pepin County, in the US state of Wisconsin.
[3] The socken has various graves from the Iron Age.
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