Chappaqua is a hamlet of the town of New Castle, New York, that has been known as a place of quiet refuge since having been founded by Quaker farmers three centuries ago. Its name, in fact, comes from the Algonquin word for "the rustling land", as all that could be heard in its valleys were the sounds of falling autumnal leaves. Today's Chappaqua, though connected by road and rail to New York City, is little different. Granted, its homes are significantly larger than the ones first laid down by these early pioneers, but this essence of peace has remained throughout the years and, indeed, was one of the reasons why Horace Greeley, the famous editor of the New York Tribune, arguably became one of history's first suburban commuters when he settled on Chappaqua farmland in 1853. Of its homes, though they've generally been built along Colonial lines for generations, a number of architectural schools, among them the Norman Revival, can be found among its stock. Given the openness and light density of this hamlet, which actually saw its listed population drop from over 9,000 in 2000 to 1,436 in 2010 due to the redrawing of its census designated boundaries, the comforts it provides are likely to stay unchanged for generations to come. Just as the Quakers were able to find peace of mind when they built their first meeting house in Chappaqua in 1753, so too can every person in modern New York find all the safety and comfort they could wish for within it's contemporary borders.