Local History

First settled in 1830, the village dates from 1838 with the building of a sawmill and a stone flour mill on the Kalamazoo River here.  Isaac Crary and John D. Pierce founded the village and latter named it by combining the name of the Greek goddess of growing grail (Ceres) with that of the first two letters of the word company, -she to provide the harvest for the millers to prepare for use. 

Informational excerpts from Michigan Place Names, by Walter Romig, L.H.D.

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