Place:Honeoye Falls, Monroe, New York, United States

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NameHoneoye Falls
TypeVillage
Coordinates42.956°N 77.587°W
Located inMonroe, New York, United States
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Honeoye Falls is a village within the town of Mendon in Monroe County, New York, United States. The population was 2,674 at the 2010 census. The village includes a small waterfall on Honeoye Creek, which flows through the village and gives it its name. The name Honeoye comes from the Seneca word ha-ne-a-yah, which means lying finger, or where the finger lies. The name comes from the local story of a Native American whose finger was bitten by a rattlesnake and who therefore cut off his finger with a tomahawk.

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History

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The village was founded in 1791 by Zebulon Norton when he purchased of land for the price of 12½ cents per acre. He built a grist mill and later a saw mill, at a waterfall on Honeoye Creek. The area was originally known as Norton Mills. In 1827, Hiram Finch built a second mill, which would come to be called the Lower Mill to differentiate it from the earlier mill. On May 17, 1973, the Lower Mill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Honeoye Falls Village Historic District, St. John's Episcopal Church, Totiakton Site, and United States Post Office are also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Village presidents and mayors
Name Title Term Name Title Term
Harry Allen President 1838
1865 		James Heath President 1918–1923
Henry Lockwood President 1839 James S. Brown President 1924–1925
Edward Downs President 1840 F.F. Jobes President 1926
Stephen Barrett President 1841–1842 William Despard Mayor 1927
Richard Ostrander President 1845–1864 Basil Moore Mayor 1953–1963
C.R. Hyde President 1867 Bernard Drowne Mayor 1963–1968
William Burberry President 1868 Squire Kingston Mayor 1969–1971
J.F. Kellogg President 1870–1872
1874–1884 		William E. Clark Mayor 1972–1973
W.G. Starr President 1873 William Mantegna Mayor 1973–1981
Milo Case President 1884 Mary Louise Meisenzahl Mayor 1981–1990
W.R. Yorks President 1887
1896 		Anne R. Morton Mayor 1991 – October 2000
Seymour Pierce President 1888
1892
1905 		Stephen R. Gustin Mayor October 2000 – 2005
H.A. Tripp President 1889 Richard B. Milne Mayor 2005 – present
J.W. Flick President 1890
John Martin President 1894
1904
William Lay President 1897
1901
1904
Martin Pierce President 1899–1900
A.H. Holden President 1906
Levi Hill President 1907–1914
C.S. Lange President 1915–1917

Honeoye Falls experienced an epidemic of scarlet fever in April 1893.

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