Locate on US Highway #2 the the East of Rutland and on the road to the main ski areas, Bridgewater, Woodstock and White River Junction. Originally chartered as Medway, changed to Mendon in 1827. Many of the grantees and later settlers came from the neighboring towns of Medway and Mendon in Massachusetts, it is presumed that both names derived form those older towns.

Despite the apparent coincidence, the transition from one to the other is neither direct nor straightforward. In 1796, a charter was issued to Jonathan Parker of Clarendon for a 3,000 acre tract adjacent to Medway, to be called Parkers Gore. Then, in 1804, a classic piece of skulduggery: when some of the land in the Gore and Medway came up for a tax sale, Parker "made it worthwhile" to the sheriff to start the sale at midnight on the appointed day. Since Parker was the only bidder present, he bought the land for a purely nominal sum; when the incident became known, the sheriff had to leave the state. The combined Parkers Gore and Medway became Parkerstown that year, and remained so until 1827, when the Legislature changed it to Mendon.