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Just one of the splendid dollhouses from our recen

Just one of the splendid dollhouses from our recent exhibit "A Small Obsession: The Intimate Craft of the Dollhouse"

The Quakers continued to oppose slavery in the dec

The Quakers continued to oppose slavery in the decades leading up to the Civil War. One prominent member of the Chappaqua meeting put his convictions into action. Moses Pierce's farm lay on Bedford Road, just outside of the New Castle border, and he made his home a station on the Underground Railroad to Canada. Needless to say, the other members of the meeting surely knew about it, but no one reported him to the authorities. His portrait and that of his wife are on display on the balcony of the meetinghouse. By Gray Williams, Town Historian

A FASCINATING bit of New Castle history…. The He

A FASCINATING bit of New Castle history.... The Heady family graveyard is out at the western end of New Castle. Lazarus Heady was one of several sons of a white man and an enslaved Black woman. In the father's will of 1765, all these offspring were freed and bequeathed funds to make their way in life. Lazarus used his inheritance to acquire land in a then little-settled region of New Castle and from there, sometime in the early 1800s, he set aside an area for a family graveyard. He and his wife, both of whom lived to be almost 100 years old, are buried there, together with forty-some other family members and in-laws. After the death of Lazurus, Jr., in 1873, the farm was sold and the family graveyard was abandoned. It has recently been restored by the New Castle Historical Society of Chappaqua and is now mowed by the Town. By Gray Williams, Town Historian

To celebrate Black History Month, a few places in

To celebrate Black History Month, a few places in New Castle are especially relevant. One, you are undoubtedly familiar with - the historic Quaker Meetinghouse. Theirs was the first religious denomination in this country to denounce slavery! In the 1770s, the Quakers decided that owning fellow human beings was simply wrong and that any Friend who persisted in doing so would be disowned. By Gray Williams, Town Historian

Have you ever received a ‘Vinegar Valentine’?

Have you ever received a ‘Vinegar Valentine’? Those Victorians were a mean lot!

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