Älvsby

Älvsbyn lies on the Pite River, upstream from the old coastal centre of Piteå. Settlers lived in the river valley by the fourteenth century, and the district long belonged to the extensive parish centred at Öjebyn. In 1781 the inhabitants gained a chapel district of their own. Their church was begun in the early nineteenth century, and its first service was held in 1808; the name Älvsbyn appears in a parish meeting record the following year.