![]() ![]() ![]() Various spellings were used for the name they heard Native Americans use for their valley and hillside. 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. Horace Greeley's home, known as Rehoboth and built by Greeley himself, still stands in Chappaqua. The area around the meeting house, known as Old Chappaqua Historic District, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. ![]() Their meeting house was built in 1753 and still holds weekly meetings each Sunday. They built their homes on Quaker Road (more recently, Quaker Street) and held their meetings at the home of Abel Weeks. In the early 1730s a group of Quakers moved north from Purchase, New York, to settle in present-day Chappaqua. ![]()
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