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Chappaqua is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of New Castle in northern Westchester County, New York, about 30 miles north of New York City.

Chappaqua was founded by Quakers in the 1730s, and its name comes from the Algonquian word 'shah-pah-ka,' evoking the rustling of wind in the leaves; the Quakers were already spelling it 'Shapequa' by 1745.

The Chappaqua Friends Meeting House, built around 1753, is the oldest extant Quaker meeting house in Westchester County and served as a Continental Army hospital during the Revolutionary War.

Newspaper editor Horace Greeley bought a farm of roughly 78 acres in Chappaqua in 1851 and built what is described as America's first concrete barn there in 1856; the barn was later remodeled into a house named Rehoboth.

Greeley's home, the Greeley House, now houses the New Castle Historical Society in downtown Chappaqua.

Horace Greeley High School, named for the editor and 1872 presidential candidate, is consistently ranked among the top public high schools in New York.

The railroad reached Chappaqua in 1846, and the hamlet is still served by the Chappaqua station on Metro-North's Harlem Line.

Bill and Hillary Clinton bought a house in Chappaqua in 1999 and have lived there since the end of his presidency, making the hamlet a nationally known political address.

The Chappaqua CDP counted 2,598 residents in the 2020 census; its census totals swing sharply between decades because the Census Bureau has redrawn the CDP's boundaries, counting 9,468 people there in 2000 and 1,436 in 2010.

Census survey estimates count roughly 1,180 households in Chappaqua, with a median household income above $240,000 and about 77% of homes owner-occupied (2024 survey data).