Originally, during the time of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, it was part of the village of Przytoczno in Stężyca Land, Sandomierz Voivodeship.

In 1498, at the request of its landowner, Mikołaj of Ostrów, King John I Albert issued a privilege granting it town rights under the Magdeburg law.

The town received permission to organize three fairs a year, a street market every few weeks, and to set up guilds for its burghers.

[4] In 1831, during the November Uprising, a skirmish between Polish troops led by General Antoni Jankowski and Russian units took place there.

[3] During World War II, in 1942, Germans performed a mass execution of elderly and disabled Jewish residents south of the village, next to a road to Michów.