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    The majority of students in Byron Township attend Byron Center Public Schools.  The Kentwood, Wayland, Wyoming, and Grandville School Districts also draw from Byron Township.  Byron Township is also home to Byron Center Christian Elementary and Middle School and South Christian High School.

    Byron Center Public Schools consists of two elementary schools - Marshall and Mylo A. Brown, Nickels Intermediate School for 5th and 6th Grade, Byron Center Middle School for 7th and 8th Grade, and Byron Center High School.  Brown Elementary and Byron Center High School are both National Blue Ribbon Schools.

    For more information about these fine schools, check their websites:

Byron Center Public Schools

Byron Center Christian School

South Christian High School

Kentwood Public Schools

Grandville Public Schools

Wayland Public Schools

History of Byron Township

from the Illustrated Historical Atlas of Kent County, Michigan
(1876)

    Nathan Boynton located a farm in Byron Township in the year 1835, but being taken sick, his brothers Jeremiah and William Boynton began his improvements for him, and they became citizens of the Township in the year 1836, settling in the northwestern part.  They were followed in 1837 by John Harmon, Harmon Kellog, and James B. Jewell, and perhaps a few others, and soon after by Mr. Ella Judson, Larkin Ball, Peter Golden, Eli Crossman, Amalek Taylor, Alden Coburn, and Benjamin Robinson.  William Olmstead came to the town in 1840, and soon after, Samuel Hubbel, Joseph Gallup, Henry Vannest, Oliver Harris, Ezekiel Cook, E.R. Ide and James McKenny.

    As will be seen in the notice of Wyoming Township, Byron was organized in 1836, and the first town meeting was held at the house of C.H. Oakes, in Grandville, by far the largest portion of the voters of that day residing in and near that village.

    The officers elected for the year 1836 were:
    Supervisor - Gideon H. Gordon
    Clerk - Issac A. Allen
    Assessors - Eli Yeomans, Ephraim P. Walker, Justin Brooks
    Justice of Peace - Gideon H. Gordon, Robert Howlit, E.P. Walker
    Collector - Lorenz French

    At the general election in November, but 20 votes were polled for any one candidate.  The present Township of Byron did not fill up so rapidly as some others and by the year 1850 its population had increased to only about 300.

    For more information on the history of Byron Township, contact the Byron Township Historical Society - 878-1898.

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