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Locust
Valley: A Place Named for Its Beautiful Trees
It's a peaceful setting of elegant homes,
rolling hills, two-lane roads and woods filled with the trees
that give Locust Valley - right in the heart of Long Island's
Gold Coast - its distinctive name.
Strictly speaking, "Locust Valley" on the map is a
quaint unincorporated hamlet of Oyster Bay Town, just one square
mile in size with shops and boutiques, a library, fire house
and Long Island Rail Road Station. But the hamlet was once part
of a much larger region in what is now northern Nassau County,
settled by farmers around 1667 and dubbed Matinecock after the
Indian tribe.
Today, when most residents talk of the "Locust Valley"
area, they include, at least, the surrounding incorporated villages
of Lattingtown, Matinecock and Mill Neck - a location encompassing
two exclusive private golf clubs, the Creek (founded in Lattingtown
in 1923 by J. Pierpont Morgan Jr.) and the Piping Rock in Matinecock,
historic landmarks and celebrity homes. more... |
