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More historic than 94% of U.S. towns · #165 of 758 in New York. What drives it
9 places in town are on the National Register, among them three historic districts with 88 buildings between them. Below: 4 old photos and papers, maps from 1925 on, and the census since 1820.
Concord dates its founding to 1807 (Wikipedia’s history). The census first counted it in 1820.
More historic than 94% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Concord is more historic than 94% of U.S. towns, #165 of 758 in New York. All 3 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its National Register listings ranks highest and its age lowest.
New York towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical New York town has 12.3 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Concord’s 178 sits above most of its state (81% of New York towns have fewer) while its 147 historic buildings outnumber those of 92% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: Wikipedia (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Concord had its own post office from 1891 to 1902. Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Concord’s history is told.
Lost a third of its people between 1820 and 1830, then grew 4-fold.
21 censuses, 1820–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Concord’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Concord.
Concord was first settled around 1807, and it was established as a town in 1812 from the town of Willink (now defunct). At the time of its formation, the town stretched across the entire south part of the county. The town lost much of its territory in the subsequent formation of the Towns of Collins, North Collins, and Sardinia.
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Passages that mention Concord, cut from the printed page as they were published.
49'^ Colonial the said Town of Concord a certain Tract or parcel of Land containing by Estimation Eight Thousand acres be he same more or less and is situate lying and being within the last Grants of Land by the General Court to the Towntof Concord and is bounded Southeast by the old bounds of the said town of Concord and is bounded Easterly partly by Billerica partly by a Farm formerly laid out b) Major Wil-
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22^ Colonial and by these presents do sell, alien, enfeofe, and confirm unto the said Capt. Timothy Wheeler, &c. of Concord in the county of Middlesex in y® Massachusetts Colony, in New England, for the use and behoof of themselves and the rest of the proprietors of the s'd town of Concord a certain tract or parcell of land conteyning by estimation a thousand acres, be the same more or less, and is situate,
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On the 28th of December, 1795, two months after the completion of Concord bridge, another legislative act incorporated Timothy Walker, Benjamin Emery, William Partridge, Jonathan Eastman, Joshua Thompson, and others, their associates, to be known as the " Proprietors of Federal Bridge," for the purpose " of building a bridge over the river ]\Ierrimack, at or near a place called Tucker's Ferry in Concord." This ferry had formerly been called " Eastman's," for Captain Ebenezer Eastman, its first proprietor. It was on the prin-
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Upon the town of Concord was also assessed the sum of sixteen hundred and seventy-eight dollars and fifty cents, being one half of the subscriptions above mentioned, and awarded as damages to the respective owners of the bridge. In short, its cost was borne in moiety by the subscribers before mentioned and the town of Concord.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In the archiveConcord (Township)
In the archiveAshbel R. Sellew; Residence of Stephen R. Smith, Esq., Town of Concord.; Wm. Watkins
BuiltScobey Power Plant and Dam is built
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey2 decades in the archive, from the 1860s to the 1880s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Concord. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Concord.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Concord’s page.
Retake this view · +15The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving. Boundary changes and added documentation are counted with their listing.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Concord itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1807, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Concord’s post office opened in 1820, and the census of 1820 counted 2,786 people here.
Concord is more historic than 94% of U.S. towns, #165 of 758 in New York. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
9 listings: 6 buildings, among them the US Post Office-Springville (listed 1989, the first), and 3 historic districts, the East Main-Mechanic Streets Historic District, the East Hill Historic District and the Fiddlers Green Historic District, with 88 contributing buildings. 147 historic buildings in all.
31% of Concord’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.4 points), against a typical 27% for a New York town; the median home was built in 1968.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (12), the National Register of Historic Places (9), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System 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.
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