Mendon’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Mendon. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Mendon was laid out a mile and a quarter from its current location in 1871 by Christopher Shupe. Shupe named it for his previous home place, Mendon, Illinois, which incorporated in 1867 and was named for Mendon, Massachusetts, incorporated precisely two centuries earlier, in 1667.
The Missouri area had been known as "Salt Creek", and businesses were in operation several years prior to the town plat actually being filed. Among the earliest was a general store built around 1865 by Mr. Bostich and Mr. Eastman. A Methodist church was erected in 1866. A sawmill was located five miles east of the town.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Mendon’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Mendon’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewMendon Depot 1910, 1910: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Mendon, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Mendon is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Mendon has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Locust Hill in Brunswick, 9.7 miles away.
Mendon and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Mendon Depot 1910 (1910) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (4). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.