12 September 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
Reading Time: 7 minutesRehoboth, one of the very first concrete homes, originally built as a barn, ever built in the US © Nat Postrigan/cc-by-sa-3.0
Chappaqua is a
hamlet and
census-designated place in the
town of
New Castle, in
northern Westchester County, New York, United States. It is approximately 30 miles (50 km) north of
New York City. The hamlet is served by the
Chappaqua station of the
Metro-North Railroad‘s
Harlem Line. In the
New York State Legislature it is within the
New York State Assembly‘s 93rd district and the
New York Senate‘s 40th district. In
Congress the village is in New York’s
17th District. Chappaqua was founded by a group of
Quakers in the 1730s and was the home of
Horace Greeley,
New-York Tribune editor and U.S. congressman. Since the late 1990s, former President
Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton have lived there.
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