Pella’s 175th Anniversary Celebration concluded Saturday with Kermis games at the Pella Historical Village and day two of free tours of the Tuttle Log Cabin, considered the community’s birthplace. A group of organizers from Pella Historical Society, Visit Pella, and the Pella Wellness Consortium put together events this past Thursday through Saturday to highlight the occasion. Bruce Boertje with Historic Pella Trust has also been making posts detailing the history of the community’s founding on the group’s Facebook page, and says the actual birthday of Pella comes a bit later in August, and also came as a result of several months of hard work by Dominie Hedrick Scholte and others. Hundreds of settlers arrived on August 26, 1847, to a place where stood a hickory pole with a shingle nailed to the top, and on the shingle one word, “Pella.”