Mendon is mostly horse farms and family homes on Monroe County's southern edge, about 13 miles south of Rochester, with the county's highest ground in its southeast corner.
Mendon became its own town on May 26, 1812, when it separated from Bloomfield, and it joined Monroe County when the county was created in 1821. The name most likely comes from Mendon, Massachusetts, the hometown of one of the early settlers. Long before any of that, a Seneca settlement called Totiakton, about 4,000 people, stood here until 1687. Today the town has 9,095 people, by the 2020 census. Pittsford is to the north, Victor to the east, Henrietta and Rush to the west, Lima and West Bloomfield to the south. The highest point in Monroe County, 1,028 feet, is just inside the southeast corner, in the Hopper Hills.
Start with Mendon Ponds Park. It is the largest park in Monroe County, 2,462 acres of woodlands, ponds and wetlands in the northwest part of the town, and it has been a National Natural Landmark since November 1967 for its glacial features. The rest of the town is mostly horse farms and family homes. The village of Honeoye Falls sits on Honeoye Creek in the southwest, and the hamlet of Mendon is at the junction of Routes 64 and 251 in the east. Several cobblestone farmhouses around town are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
One design, the town name in the arch, on a tee or a crewneck. Around here that means the Mendon crewneck in Dusting for a cold morning at Mendon Ponds, or the Mendon tee in Erie Blue when the horse farms are green. Boathouse Blue and Concrete are the quieter picks.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org