Caledonia is a town in Livingston County, New York, United States. The population was 4,255 at the 2010 census. The town contains the village of Caledonia. The town is in the northwestern allocation of the county and is southwest of Rochester. It is allowance of the Rochester metropolitan area.

The Seneca people long occupied much of present-day western New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio. They had a village in this area called “Canawaugus” (or Conawagus); it was located upon the west side of the Genesee River. The site has previously been absorbed by the town of Caledonia. Chief Cornplanter was born here roughly speaking 1750 into the Wolf clan of his Seneca mother. His father was a Dutch fur trader, John Abeel, whose associates had been conventional in Albany. Cornplanter was known as a statesman as with ease as a suit chief, and he was influential in inviting Quakers to teach Seneca children upon his land.

The first European-American settlements did not accept place until something like the 1790s, after the Revolutionary War. The Seneca, as allies of the defeated British, were irritated to hand over most of their house to the United States. The first known enduring white pact began in 1797. The town of Caledonia was usual in 1803 as the “Town of Southampton,” having past been known as “Northampton.” Settlers from Scotland renamed it “Caledonia”, the Latin publish for Scotland, in 1806.

Part of the territory of the town was used to form the town of Bellona in 1812; its proclaim was distorted to Le Roy (Genesee County) in 1813. As the population increased, in 1819, another portion of Caledonia was removed to form share of the town of York. The town of Wheatland (Monroe County) was formed from Caledonia in 1821.