This area was settled after the American Revolutionary War largely by migrants from New England and eastern New York state, after the Seneca Nation, of the Haudenosaunee, or Six Nations ceded it in the Treaty of Big Tree, in 1797.

The Seneca controlled this area at the time of the influx of White Americans but until the period of 1644-1647, it was the realm of The Wenro & Neuter People.

[3] The Town of Ridgeway was formed from Batavia in 1812,[4] in the period of the War of 1812, when Britain and the United States fought over the border with Canada.

[4] In 1823, Ebenezer Mix was hired to survey and lay out the future village of Medina, the northern portion of which lies within Ridgeway.

New York State Route 269 (County Line Road) partly defines this border.

New York State Route 31E passes through the southeast part of Ridgeway.

The Oak Orchard River flows through the town toward Lake Ontario to the north.