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Avon is a town in Livingston County, New York, United States. It is south of Rochester. The town population was 7,146 at the 2010 census.
The town was named after the River Avon in England.
The village of Avon is in the northwest share of the town.

The area around and including what would become Avon village was inhabited for millennia by Paleo-Indians and forward-thinking by the Seneca people, the western-most tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy. After the Iroquois title to the house was extinguished in 1788 subsequently the Phelps and Gorham Purchase, white and Black treaty of the area began. In 1789, Dr. Timothy Hosmer, Maj. Isaiah Thompson, William Wadsworth, and others from Hartford, Connecticut, purchased a tract east of the Genesee River and named it “Hartford” after their homeland. The town was organized in 1797. The town’s declare was misused to “Avon” in 1808 to avoid confusion gone another Hartford in Washington County, New York. In 1818, part of the town was removed to form the supplementary town of Rush. County lines shifted as well, Avon and Rush both being portion of Ontario County until the formation of Livingston County and Monroe County in 1821.

The first steadfast white settlers of Avon village were Gilbert and Maria (Wemple) Berry in 1789, who operated a tavern and a rope ferry upon the east bank of the Genesee River. When Gilbert died in 1797, Maria Berry continued serving travelers in the inn until just about 1812. The town’s first gristmill was built by Capt. John Ganson in northwest Avon in 1789 and the first sawmill in 1797 on the Conesus Outlet built by Dr. Hosmer.