In the first half of the 18th century, the folwark of Mereczowszczyzna belonged to the Sapieha family, and until the Partitions of Poland, was administratively located in the Brest Litovsk Voivodeship in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

During the January Uprising, on June 8, 1863, it was the site of a battle between Polish insurgents and Russian troops.

On 24–25 July 1942, the Germans carried out a massacre of some 1,200 Jews from a ghetto in nearby Kosów Poleski.

Next to Kościuszko’s house a large rock was placed with a plaque that reads in Belarusian: “Here, in Merechevschina, Andrej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kasciuszka was born.

He was the great son of the Belarusian land, who became a hero of Poland and USA, as well as Honorary Citizen of France”.