Town Of Mendon

About Us

The Town of Mendon is a rural community in the Eastern Genesee Valley and Finger Lakes Regions of Upstate New York. Stretching along the Southeastern portion of Monroe County, Mendon boasts the county's highest elevations topping 1,028 feet above sea level. Mendon is well known for its history, scenic views and farmlands that are seemingly quilted into the rolling landscape. Like many rural communities, Agriculture remains Mendon's economic strength. Another strong attribute of our area is our schools. With Pittsford and Honeoye Falls-Lima Schools leading the way, student education in Mendon is among the very best in the country. Along the winding banks of Honeoye Creek, the Village of Honeoye Falls remains the largest area of commerce in the Township. The village is home to our Town Hall, which flanks the northside of the upper falls. The Town Hall is one of many treasured historic sites in the town.

It is difficult to imagine the Town of Mendon once being a dense forest and also to visualize Honeoye Creek as ever having been a roaring stream. The Town of Mendon today is much different from the log cabin era of 1790 when oxen pulled covered wagons through mud holes, when our pioneer families planted the seeds of settlement, and wolves howled in the woods behind the clearings. And this was the beginning. By 1860, the Town of Mendon contained three hamlets, the village of Honeoye Falls and 23,000 acres of excellent farmland. Mendon contained two churches, a steam flouring mill, a steam sawmill, a foundry, and twenty houses. Mendon Center had a grist and saw mill and 15 houses and was an early Quaker settlement with choice land for farming. Sibleyville was a busy hamlet in the southwest part containing a sawmill, machine shop which manufactured carding machines, a foundry, water grist mill and saw mill which doubled as a cider mill in the fall, a woolen mill, cobblestone meeting house and about a dozen houses. Later on, about 1896, Rochester Junction became a hamlet with a railroad station, hotel and post office. Honeoye Falls was, and still is, the only village in the Town of Mendon. The population of the Town of Mendon in 2000, including Honeoye Falls is approximately 8,370 and embraces an area of approximately 39 square miles.