Montour Falls is a village located in Schuyler County, New York, United States.

The modern day Village of Montour Falls is developed on the site of a former Seneca Indian village, Queanettquaga, informally known as Catherine's Town after a prominent Seneca Indian resident and leader, Queen Catharine Montour.

During America's War of Independence reprisals were sanctioned against tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy who had allied themselves with Great Britain.

The infamous nearby Battle of Newtown, New York (August 1779) and the march that devastated Queanettquaga (and forty other Amerindian villages of the Finger Lakes) is known as the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition.

[2] In addition to burning Queen Catharine Montour's log palace, orchards were cut down, homes destroyed, livestock murdered and cropland salted.

1710, died February 20, 1804) is memorialized by a grave mound located on her namesake Catharine Trail within the Montour Falls village limits.

1802 is the earliest date commonly used to mark the beginning of the Montour Falls community — it is the year George Mills was appointed postmaster.

Mills Landing, later Havana, would become commercially significant given its location at the head of navigation on the Seneca Lake inlet.

Charles Cook, businessmen, politician (Canal Commissioner and State Senator), philanthropist and visionary, is credited with the establishment of Schuyler County (1854) and Havana, New York as its first County Seat; the Cook Academy (originally the People's College) began construction in 1858.

Cook also served as president of the Chemung Canal Trust Bank—the oldest continuously operating bank in the region dating to 1835.

In 1872 two native son engineers of Havana, New York, formed a materials handling company they called Shepard Niles.

From their web site: "Workhorse cranes and hoists that last virtually forever–this is what industry expects from Shepard Niles.

While the company is ongoing, since its acquisition in 1989, its primary operations are no longer domiciled in Montour Falls.

Montour Falls is well known[citation needed] for the natural attraction of a 165-foot waterfall located on the west side of the village.