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The Old Chappaqua Historic District is located along Quaker Road (New York State Route 120) in the town of New Castle, New York, United States, between the hamlets of Chappaqua and Millwood. It was the original center of Chappaqua, prior to the construction of the New York and Harlem Railroad and the erection of its station to the south in the ...
From its settlement by Quakers in the early 18th century, Chappaqua had been a small self-sufficient farming community clustered around the meetinghouse, today at the center of the Register-listed Old Chappaqua Historic District a half-mile (800 m) north of downtown along King Street (New York State Route 120).
The Chappaqua Friends Meeting House, built 1753, is the oldest Quaker meeting house in Westchester County, New York, a stop on the Underground Railroad and a birthplace of the abolitionist movement in New York. [1] In 1776 it would serve as a hospital for Continental Army soldiers injured at the nearby Battle of White Plains. [2]
The Chappaqua Friends Meeting House, circa 1753, is the oldest extant Quaker meeting house in Westchester County, and is a contributing property to the Old Chappaqua Historic District. [citation needed] America's first concrete barn was completed by Horace Greeley on his Chappaqua farm in 1856.
In the early 1850s, Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune and a former congressman, bought a house in Chappaqua near the New York and Harlem Railroad station. In addition to giving his family a quiet and cool place to escape the city during hot summers, he also bought some land in the vicinity to use as a small farm, where he tested experimental agricultural techniques he had become ...
Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 220 South Bedford Road, in Chappaqua, Northern Westchester, New York, in the United States. Founded in 1949, [1] it is notable for its synagogue building, designed by Louis Kahn. Although Kahn designed other synagogues, this is the only one of his ...
The main building of the wooden synagogue was built around 1700. Probably between 1750 and 1800, a stone porch with a small prayer room and another prayer room for women on the first floor was added to the west side. In 1928 it was classified as extremely dilapidated and therefore renovated in 1934. The wooden building stood on a stone base.
In 1880, The "Old Put" Railroad ran from New York to Brewster. The section between East View and Pocantico Hills , travelled over an 80-foot-high trestle over a marsh-filled valley. [ 5 ] Because of the dangers of crossing the bridge, which often required that trains slow down to a crawl, the line was rerouted west around that valley in 1881. [ 6 ]