History · Brady

Brady’s history is
mostly unwritten

The public archives hold just one old photo of Brady. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

1old images & papers
1historic places
1recent photos

The story so far

from Wikipedia & the U.S. Census

Brady Township is a charter township of Kalamazoo County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 4,445. The township adopted charter status by a vote of the board of trustees on January 3, 2024.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 4,248 to 4,445 (+5%). Half of its homes were built before 1971.

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Brady yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

built from the dates on the items below
1928Plat book of Kalamazoo County, Michigan - compi…Commons
1930–1999Nothing yet. Family albums go here.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Brady’s history is told.

1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewPlat book of Kalamazoo County, Mi…, 1928: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10

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Brady, decade by decade

1930s–
1990s
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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National Register of Historic Places

1 historic place in Brady

1 place in Brady is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

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In Michiganby listings · most towns there have none
1place listed1 building
0National Historic LandmarksNone here yet
1historic building protectedcounting each building in a district
2024first listedVicksburg Union Depot

Where they are

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Buildings

When they were listed

The Register began in 1966.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places (05/22/2026) · styles from the National Archives catalog · photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place

Then & now

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Plat book of Kalamazoo County, Michigan - compiled from surveys and the public records of Kalamazoo County, Michigan (1928) and it appears here side by side.

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Stories next door

nearby towns’ history

From Wikimedia Commons (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

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