Chappaqua, Census-designated place in New Castle, United States.
Chappaqua is a settlement in northern Westchester County, roughly 30 miles from New York City, sitting at an elevation of about 100 meters. The residential neighborhoods lie along wooded hills and quiet roads that wind through the gently rolling terrain.
Quaker families settled along present-day Quaker Road from the 1730s onward and built a meeting house in 1753. In the nineteenth century, Horace Greeley, founder of the New York Tribune, moved here and brought wider recognition to the hamlet.
The performance center on King Street hosts theater, concerts and dance evenings that bring together neighbors from the hamlet and nearby towns. Local families often attend shows on weekends when the small auditorium fills with audience members.
The train station sits in the center of the hamlet and offers regular connections to Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan. Visitors who want to explore the residential areas can walk along shaded side streets or cycle through the hilly landscape.
The home of Horace Greeley still stands on King Street and houses personal items and papers from the nineteenth century. Visitors can enter the small museum and tour the rooms where the newspaper publisher once lived and worked.
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