History of Tykochin

The town was found in 1425 on the chelminskie law by Prince of Mazowsze Janusz. It developed from little borough into a major center of Gasztold family's properties which it's been for over one hundred years. After last of Gasztold Stanislaw died without descendants, the town was given to Polish King Zygmunt the old. By the a.d. 1661 Tykocin was King's own property and it was administrative center of Tykocin's district, in the boundries of podlaskie province, wchich was in the 1569 included into Polish Kingdom. By the resolution of Parliament Tykocin with all the surrounding properties was given to Stanislaw Czarniecki as descents property. After his death the succesion of Tykocin fell to Gryfici Braniccy Family.

In the XIX century next heirs of Tykocin were Potocki and Rostworowscy families. During the annexations of Poland, the town was in Prussia hands, after Tylza treaty it was included into the Warsaw Principality. Between the Fisrt and Second War Tykocin was a part of wysokomazowieckie district. After World War II, heavily damaged, stripped from, murdered by the Germans, well educated citizens, lost its town privileges, and became an ordinary village. Today Tykocin is a center of agricultural county and regained its town privileges in 1993.