Concord Holds Springville, Zoar Valley, and Early Erie County Memory

Concord has the kind of official history page that makes a town feel bigger than its population.

Town materials say Concord was settled early in 1807 and organized in 1812. Its older footprint covered the southern part of Erie County before Collins, North Collins, and Sardinia were formed from it. The same history connects Springville Academy, the Dygert Farm, and early Erie County Fair memory to the town.

Then the landscape enters. Concord’s history places Zoar Valley and Cattaraugus Creek along the southern border and names Springville along with hamlets such as East Concord and Mortons Corners.

That gives Concord a strong local shape: an old parent town, a village core, school and fairground memory, and a dramatic creek-country edge.

For a drive through southern Erie County, Springville may be the name that sticks. Zoar Valley adds the wilder backdrop. The town history ties them together, so Concord reads as both civic memory and hill-country landscape rather than a generic spot below Buffalo.

That mix gives the town a nice front-and-back feeling. Springville brings the storefront and school-history side; Cattaraugus Creek and Zoar Valley bring the ravines, road bends, and outdoor pull.