School was held at this location as early as 1840, when fifty-seven students attended the log store turn, and by 1849 eighty-seven students attended yearly. In 1852, $361.61 was raised to build a new brick schoolhouse. George Drake, a local resident and teamster, took his wagon and team to Leonidas, Michigan, where he located and secured bricks for the school, and some of the original bricks remain here. The building was used by the West Concord Methodist Circuit from 1852 to the mid 1880's, along with countless schoolchildren until 1899, when the old bricks had deteriorated to the point that a new school was needed. Land for the new school was purchased from the Grundemann family across the main road and on the east side of Mann Road, $1000.00 was secured, and by Oct. 21, 1899 the schoolhouse was completed and in use. Over the years, restoration efforts on these grounds were made by the Grundemann family, the Ford family, Men Frambes, Spring Arbor Boy Scouts, Brenda Walters, Todd Helton, Chuck & Pat Clark, and the Austin Blair Camp #7 Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. Veterans buried here include Swift Woodworth of the Revolutionary War; Jeremiah Van Wormer, Zur Coleman, and Reuben Penovar of the War of 1812; and Henry H. Ford, Hawley Nearpass, Fredrick Winchell, Jerry Van Wormer, and William Van Wormer of the Civil War.