About Bedford 

The Town of Bedford, with its 39.3 square miles encompassing the hamlets of Bedford Village, Bedford Hills and Katonah, is situated in northern Westchester County.  

HISTORY 

-On December 23, 1680, 22 men from Stamford, Connecticut, founded the Town of Bedford.
-The new settlement provided for a meetinghouse, gristmill on the Mianus River and burying ground.
-Today's Village Green is one-third its original size but the graveyard and surrounding principal streets remain substantially as they were originally planned in 1681.
-In 1700, Bedford became part of New York.
-The Town's importance grew during the Colonial period and served as the wartime Westchester County seat during the Revolutionary War after the Battle of White Plains and until Bedford was burned by the British on July 11, 1779. After the Revolution, Bedford became one of two seats of County government, alternating with White Plains until 1870.
- The Court House in Bedford Village, built in 1787 and renovated in the 1960s, is Westchester County's oldest government building.
 

PUBLIC SCHOOLS 

The town of Bedford, NY is served by two public school districts. The Bedford school district serves the southern two-thirds of the town including the hamlets of Bedford Village and Bedford Hills as well as the neighboring town of Pound Ridge and parts of New Castle. It has a high school, middle school and five elementary schools. The Katonah-Lewisboro school district serves the northern one-third of the town including the hamlet of Katonah, the town of Lewisboro, and portions of the towns of Pound Ridge and North Salem. It has a high school, middle school, and four elementary schools.  

TRANSPORTATION 

Train travel on Metro North between Bedford and New York City takes approximately one hour.  

PARKS AND RECREATION 

There are three active parks and two passive parks in the Town of Bedford under the aegis of the Recreation and Parks Department.  

In each hamlet, an active park is available for year 'round activities and home each summer to a day camp. The two passive parks, Indian Hill Park, accessible from Paddock Lane in Bedford Village, and Beaver Dam Sanctuary Park, off Harris Road, Bedford Hills, offer walking trails and natural areas.  

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