The oldest traces of humans in Puńsk territory date back to about 10,000 years BC.

Nowadays only some castle hills (e.g. in Šiurpilis), mounds (e.g. in Eglinė), cemeteries (e.g. in Szwajcaria), village names (e.g. Zervynai, Krosna) and archaeological excavations remind us about their existence.

In 1597, the Seivai forester, Stanisław Zaliwski built the church in Puńsk, and here was the parish established.

Later on the Lithuanian chancellery published the document of the king Sigismund I the Old, which stated that Puńsk's parish priest can only be a Lithuanian-speaking person.

In 1807 it became part of the short-lived Polish Duchy of Warsaw, within which it was administratively located in the Łomża Department.

Similarly to the situation in other disputed areas, including the Vilnius region, a referendum which would determine which country the inhabitants of Puńsk wanted to belong to was not held.

Some extant old houses, the building of synagogue and a big cemetery nearby Puńsk remind of their former presence.

During World War II, Puńsk was occupied by Germany, who incorporated it directly into the province of East Prussia.

It was also decided to colonize this area and populate it with Germans in accordance with the Lebensraum policy, and resettle many indigenous Lithuanians to Lithuania, which was then occupied by the Russians.

In Yad Vashem's Central Database of Shoah (Holocaust) Victims, more than six dozen Jewish inhabitants of Puńsk are listed as being murdered during World War II.

Some were killed in the village itself, while others were deported to camps and ghettos in German-occupied Poland and neighboring Lithuania.

[3] With the end of German occupation, the village was restored to Poland, although with a Soviet-installed communist regime, which remained in power until the Fall of Communism in the 1980s.

These are: The important role in propagation of national awareness is played by the Publishing House and its periodical Aušra.