Purmo is a former municipality of Finland. It was incorporated into the rural municipality of Pedersöre (currently the municipality of Pedersöre) in Ostrobothnia in 1977. Purmo is home to a wooden church built by Antti Hakola in 1772. Approximately 1,400 people live in Purmo and like in Pedersöre, they are mainly Swedish-speaking.
The Purmo Group, a manufacturing firm, was founded in Purmo in 1953.
Name.
According to Lars Huldén, the name of Purmo may come from the Finnish words "puro" (stream) and "maa" (land) or from a North Karelian surname, "Purmonen". Other possibilities include a common origin with "Purmoniemi", a peninsula in Evijärvi and "Purmonsaari", a hill in Lappajärvi; as well as a relation to the South Ostrobothnian dialectal word "purmu" referring to a pit for storing beets during the winter.
History.
Purmo was first mentioned as a village within the Pedersöre parish in 1543. It became a chapel community in 1771 and an independent parish and municipality in 1867.
Purmo was merged back into Pedersöre in 1977.
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