Concord has long served as Erie County's gateway to the Allegheny Mountains, with roads, recreation, and scenic landscapes shaping its history. Concord Community Park was created in 1952 on donated land and became the home of the Springville Baseball Club, which turned a 20 acre field into a three diamond baseball facility and played in the Buffalo Evening News League until 1982, while the fields still serve the community today. Springville-Boston Road, built in 1851 as a plank road, used 10 foot planks laid side by side across the right-of-way, with toll houses operated by local farmers, and carried manufactured and agricultural goods from Springville to the Erie Canal in Buffalo. North of the park, Genesee Road was the first road built in Concord, around 1810 by the Holland Land Company, and its original name, Cattaraugus-Genesee Road, was later shortened. Pop Warner lived at the intersection of Genesee Road and Springville Boston Road. South of here, Springville-Boston Road leads through Springville to Cattaraugus Creek and Zoar Valley, where Cattaraugus Creek winds through the valley. The site of the Springville Country Club was once Cascade Park and pavilion, a tourist destination operated by the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad around 1900. Zoar Valley includes a 2847 acre state multi-use area and an 8.4 mile canyon with 20 waterfalls. Fair View Cemetery contains the oldest graves in Concord, including that of Erasmus Briggs, who wrote an early history of Concord from its beginning in 1812. Near South Cascade Road Bridge over Cattaraugus Creek, Scoby Dam Park includes one of the oldest hydroelectric dams in New York State, later decommissioned in the 1990s, and the first barrier on the creek upstream from Lake Erie. The area remains known for steelhead fishing, paddle sports, hilltops, waterways, and valleys that drew Concord's earliest settlers.