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History · Tekonsha

Tekonsha’s post office opened in 1836, and 42% of its homes were built before 1940

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How Tekonsha began

When was Tekonsha founded?

1836

The Tekonsha post office opened in 1836, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 653190 years
Founding year: the first Tekonsha post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

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A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Tekonsha are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Tekonsha’s homes were built before 1948.Deep rootsA post office since 1836: 190 years of Tekonsha.
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Tekonsha, in brief

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Tekonsha is a village in Tekonsha Township, Calhoun County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is part of the Battle Creek, Michigan Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 653 at the 2020 census.

Its first post office opened in 1836. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 717 to 653 (-9%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

From the old history books

What they wrote about Tekonsha in 1913

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Tekonsha has always taken an active interest in education. From the time Chloe Ann Mead, later ;\Irs. Harvey Kennedy of Clarendon, taught school in the old plank school house, with but a dozen pupils in 1837. to the present, with Superintendent P. I. Wise and six very efficient assistant teachers, …
History of Calhoun county, Michigan1913 · page 155Read the page →
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Tekonsha has always taken an active interest in education. From the time Chloe Ann Mead, later ;\Irs. Harvey Kennedy of Clarendon, taught school in the old plank school house, with but a dozen pupils in 1837. to the present, with Superintendent P. I. Wise and six very efficient assistant teachers, with an enrollment of one hundred and ninety-seven pupils. Tekonsha has been found in the front ranks educationally. A tine two stor>' brick building was built in 1873 to which an annex was erected in 1910. The school property is now valued at $30,000.00.

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favorably with that of the best townships in the county. The St. Joseph river enters the town from the south on section 36 and flowing in a northeasterly direction nearly to Homer, turns west and leaves it on section 18 by the way of Tekonsha. This stream is small and narrow but in an early day aff…
History of Calhoun county, Michigan1913 · page 178Read the page →
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favorably with that of the best townships in the county. The St. Joseph river enters the town from the south on section 36 and flowing in a northeasterly direction nearly to Homer, turns west and leaves it on section 18 by the way of Tekonsha. This stream is small and narrow but in an early day afforded power for one or more saw mills. There is comparatively little marsh or waste land in the township. The "Air Line," a branch of the Michigan Central Railroad, completed in 1870, traverses the north central part of the towu from east to west. Clarendon Sta-

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Tekonsha, decade by decade

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Questions about Tekonsha’s history

What year was Tekonsha founded?

The Tekonsha post office opened in 1836, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (4) and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.