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Mendon is a small city in western Chariton County, Missouri, located on Missouri Route 11 about 21 miles northwest of the county seat, Keytesville, and 13 miles north of Brunswick.

Mendon was laid out in 1871 by Christopher Shupe, who named it for his previous home, Mendon, Illinois - a name that traces back to Mendon, Massachusetts, which was incorporated in 1667.

The area around Mendon was known as Salt Creek before the town existed, and homes and businesses were operating there several years before the town plat was actually filed.

When the Chicago, Santa Fe and California Railroad laid its tracks more than a mile from town in 1887 and 1888, Mendon's residents picked up and moved the community to the rails, and a new Mendon grew up at the present site while the original townsite was mostly abandoned.

By 1899 the relocated Mendon contained more than twenty stores, a school, a bank, and two hotels, and its newspaper, the Mendon Citizen, had been publishing since 1886.

Mendon's population was estimated at about 350 in the late 1890s, but it has shrunk steadily since; the 2020 census counted just 163 residents in the 0.18-square-mile city.

In the 2010 census, Mendon had 171 people living in 81 households.

Mendon is the hometown of former Major League Baseball pitcher Vern Kennedy, who is buried at Old Mendon Cemetery.