Katonah Wedding

Katonah, New York is one of three unincorporated hamlets within the town of Bedford, Westchester County.

Katonah is named for Chief Katonah, an American Indian from whom the land of Bedford was purchased by a group of English colonists. Founded with the name Whitlockville, the town changed its name, and later was moved to its present site in 1897, when its former site (Old Katonah) was flooded by the construction of the Cross River Reservoir. More than fifty buildings were moved from the old site to New Katonah, pulled by horses along timber tracks. The move was originally ordered to start in 1894, but litigation delayed the process by almost three years.