Chappaqua is a hamlet and census-designated place in northern Westchester County, New York. As of the 2010 census, following a major revision to the delineation of its boundaries by the Census Bureau, the population was 1,436. (At the 2000 census, with very different census-defined boundaries, Chappaqua had a population of 9,468.) Chappaqua is located in the town of New Castle.
In the early 1730s a group of Quakers moved north from Purchase, New ...
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Chappaqua is a hamlet and census-designated place in northern Westchester County, New York. As of the 2010 census, following a major revision to the delineation of its boundaries by the Census Bureau, the population was 1,436. (At the 2000 census, with very different census-defined boundaries, Chappaqua had a population of 9,468.) Chappaqua is located in the town of New Castle.
In the early 1730s a group of Quakers moved north from Purchase, New York, to settle in present-day Chappaqua. They built their homes on Quaker Street and held their meetings at the home of Abel Weeks. Their meeting house was built in 1753 and still holds weekly meetings each Sunday. The area around the meeting house, known as Old Chappaqua Historic District, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Horace Greeley's home, built by himself, still stands in Chappaqua.
Various spellings were used for the name they heard Native Americans use for their valley and hillside. It was an Algonquian...
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