Exploring our Heritage through our Ancestors

Smith, Abida, Clarendon

Horton, Hazen, Marshall

Local History

Darius Pierce located land here in 1832.  He sold it to Timothy Kimball who built a log house and became the first actual settler in 1833.  First named Wirt, changed to Tekonsha on June 17, 1836.  When the Michigan Central Railroad came through it was given a station in 1871.  Incorporated as a village in 1877.  It was named for a local Pottawattomi Chief, Tekon-qua-sha.

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

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