[1] Both settlements were administratively located in the Sandomierz Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province of the Polish Crown.

In 1815, the furnace was taken over by the government of Congress Poland, and in the following years, the industrial settlement of Starachowice emerged as main center of metallurgy.

According to a plan devised by Stanisław Staszic, metal industry was developed along the Kamienna river, and the settlement of Starachowice was its center.

As part of anti-Polish repressions following the unsuccessful Polish January Uprising, the Russian administration stripped Wierzbnik of its town rights in 1870, which were restored in 1916.

[1] After Poland regained independence in 1918, the government in Warsaw decided to build an arms factory in Starachowice.

On October 12, 1920, The Society of Starachowice Mining Company signed a contract with Main Office of Supplying the Army.

During the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II, the arms factory was evacuated eastwards on September 6, 1939.

In 1944, during and following the Warsaw Uprising, the Germans deported thousands of Varsovians from the Dulag 121 camp in Pruszków, where they were initially imprisoned, to Starachowice.

[5] During World War II, Starachowice was an important center of the Home Army, where units of Jan Piwnik and Antoni Heda operated.