[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Takings, under provisions of Chapter 490 of the Laws of 1883, were commenced in the years 1892, 1891, 1895, and 1897. " Many attractive residence localities in the territory taken will soon be, if not so already, among the things of the past. What was known as the Village of Katonah, in the Town of Bedford, has be-come extinct, and is now only a matter of history; its buildings, appraised and sold by order of New York City, have vanished; many of the frame dwellings and business structures were removed, intact, from 1842 to 1900 615 one mile distant south to the new settlement where old residents of Katonah are establishing new homes and a new resident village, to be known as New Katonah. Whitlockville and Wood's Bridge, also in the Town of Bedford, will pass out as did old Katonah, and its people will find habitations elsewhere. The thriving locality of Purdy Station, or a greater part thereof, shares the fate of Katonah, and will lie in peace hereafter as a part of the bed of the new reser-voir; Purdy Station, within the Township of North Salem, and Pine's Bridge, in the Town of Yorktown, lying close to the borders of Croton Lake, attractive and popular as a summer resort, and famous as the scene of numerous hard-fought and exciting political conventions, held in the interest of all parties, likewise will be submerged. Croton Falls, in the Town of North Salem, will contribute a portion of its territory, a section lying near and just west of the Harlem Railroad station.