Welcome
Thank you for visiting. The township hopes the site is a plain introduction to a small community where neighbors still look after their own property and the road in front of it.
Concord Township, in Jackson County, was settled in the 1830s as farming country around larger neighbors. Stop by the office and the old photographs from the 1830s through the 1890s are still the quickest way to see it. The welcome the township has used for years still fits: people here are hard-working, self-sufficient, and plain about what they expect from local government.
There is farmland, open space, a village, and a little industry. The line the township has kept on the front page is the right one: We love this place…and it shows.
How the township was drawn
Up to 1836, Concord Township was part of Spring Arbor. When it was first set off, it included what is now Pulaski as well as Concord. In 1837 Pulaski became its own township, and the present limits were set.
The first township meeting was held at the store of Ira Jacobs in April 1836. Thomas McGee was elected supervisor and Isaac Van Fossen was clerk. The first school opened in 1835, taught by Mary McGee. Jerry Reynolds opened a tavern about a mile east of the present village. In 1828 Andrew Brown put up a flouring mill on the Kalamazoo River, a mile east of town.
The 1874 Historical Atlas of Jackson County called it a fine agricultural region: well watered, rich sandy loam, and a good deal of timber. Trustee John Pardee supplied that account to the township.