S40W31356 Johns Way
Genesee WI 53189

Made up of Bethesda, Genesee Depot, Saylesville, and Genesee Village, the Town of Genesee has a population of about 7,300 residents. Located in the center of Waukesha County just south of Interstate 94, the town is bordered by Ottawa to the west and Waukesha to the east.

In the 1840s, German, Welsh, Irish, and English immigrants founded the area. Bethesda was a pioneer in sanitary milk, which it shipped to Chicago and Milwaukee. Genesee Depot expanded once railroad tracks were laid in 1851 by the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad. Saylesville was named after the Sayles family who developed the settlement by building a flour mill and a grist mill. Genesee Village was settled in 1837, and a mill and a wagon factory were built there soon afterwards. The Johnstone Quarry, located in the Town of Genesee just north of Saylesville, provided stone for buildings like the Milwaukee Sentinel, the Waukesha Methodist Church, and the state capital building in Madison.