Sites in Chappaqua

Potential Sightings in Chappaqua

Readers Digest building in Pleasantville http://fr.wikipedia.org/

Main Street | Chappaqua http://www.nytimes.com/

Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary http://teacher.scholastic.com/

served as one of the first headquarters of the Readers Digest Magazine. Readers Digest is a general interest family magazine, published 10 times annually

The Readers Digest Building

Chappaqua is a hamlet and census-designated place in northern Westchester County, New York. At the 2000 census, Chappaqua had a population of 9,468. Chappaqua is located in the town of New Castle. History: 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 Greeleys home, known as

Rehoboth, and built by himself, still stands in Chappaqua. It is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places along with Chappaqua Railroad Depot and Depot Plaza, Church of Saint Mary the Virgin and Greeley Grove, and the Greeley House. Various spellings were used for the name they heard Native Americans use for their valley and hillside. It was an Algonquian word, shah-pah-ka, and it meant the rustling land or the rattling land, or a place where nothing is heard but the rustling of the wind in the leaves. The Quakers spelled

retary of State and her husband, the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, currently reside in Chappaqua, NY American sing er, actress, and model, Vanessa Williams, lives in Chappaqua with her son and two daughters.
Vanessa Williams http://www.imdb.com/

Hillary Clinton, the 67th US Sec-

An area reserved for trees and other greenery

The Arboretum

Arboretum http://en.wikipedia.org/

it Shapiqua, Shapaqua, Shapequa, Shappaqua, and, finally, Chappaqua. Their meeting was often referred to as the Shapequa Meeting as early as 1745.

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New Castle Town Hall is located at: 200 South Greeley Avenue Chappaqua, NY 10514 Contact us at: webmaster@mynewcastle.org. 914-238-4771

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