Locust Valley, New York

Locust Valley is a

The rolling hills of the North Shore of Long Island were laid down as terminal moraines by the receding glaciers of the last ice age roughly 10,000 years ago. The Algonquian tribe that settled the area, spanning from Flushing to Setauket, called the area "hilly ground" or Matinecock and as a result the Algonquian Indians who settled there became known as the Matinecock Indians.^[2]

In 1667,

On April 19, 1869, the Long Island Rail Road opened the extension of the Glen Cove line, via a single track to Locust Valley, making it the terminus of the line until the railroad was extended to its current terminus in Oyster Bay in 1889.^[4]

With the arrival of the Long Island Rail Road, a commercial center developed and thrived around the

By 1927, the wealthy Harrison Williams had established himself at his 150-acre (0.61 km²) Delano & Aldrich designed estate "Oak Point" at Bayville, on nearby Pine Island. Weekend guests (which several times included Scott Fitzgerald, the Prince of Wales, Cecil Beaton & Winston Churchill) arriving at the Locust Valley Station were often fetched in one of his fleet of Rolls-Royce motorcars which would stop in the hamlet for last-moment provisions. At that time, Williams, a Wall Street tycoon, was considered the wealthiest American, and John Kenneth Galbraith wrote, in his book about the great depression, of Williams' pyramiding of utilities holding companies, "If there must be madness something may be said for having it on a heroic scale".^{[citation needed]}

In the 1940s and 50s, Locust Valley was the country home of

Figures ranging from the Duke of Windsor to Franklin D. Roosevelt have spent considerable time in Locust Valley.^[5]

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.9 square miles (2.3 km²), of which 0.9 square miles (2.3 km²) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km²) (2.13%) is water.^[6]

As of the

There were 1,279 households, out of which 33.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.1% were married couples living together, 11.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.4% were non-families. 22.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.75 and the average family size was 3.19.

In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 23.8% under the age of 18, 6.4% from 18 to 24, 32.2% from 25 to 44, 23.5% from 45 to 64, and 14.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.5 males.

The median income for a household in the CDP was $57,418, and the median income for a family was $70,592. Males had a median income of $51,115 versus $37,868 for females. The

The Locust Valley Central School System is a K–12 public system which serves a large geographic area covering the Incorporated Villages of

In May 2012, three major national publications, Newsweek, The Washington Post, and U.S. News & World Report, ranked the high schools in the United States. All of these identified Locust Valley High School as being one of the best high schools in the country. The rankings are as follows: Newsweek ranked Locust Valley High School #2 on Long Island; #6 in New York State; and #55 in the nation. US News & World Report ranked Locust Valley High School #4 on Long Island; #20 in New York State; and #99 in the United States. The Washington Post ranked Locust Valley High School #5 on Long Island; #11 in New York State; and #144 in the United States.

Each publication uses different criteria in the selection process. The following are many of the college-readiness indicators that are used: graduation rates, college acceptance rates, the number of International Baccalaureate (IB) and Advanced Placement (AP) tests taken per student, the average score on IB and AP tests; student achievement levels; SAT scores; and State assessments.

In 2004, LVCSD began offering the

Locust Valley Cemetery is a private, non-denominational memorial designed by the Olmsted Brothers and incorporated in 1917. The Cock-Cornelius House, Matinecock Friends Meetinghouse, and George Underhill House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[14]

This article's list of residents may not follow Wikipedia's verifiability policy. Please improve this article by removing names that do not have independent reliable sources showing they merit inclusion in this article AND are residents, or by incorporating the relevant publications into the body of the article through appropriate citations. (August 2018)

• Paul Drennan Cravath
• Frank Nelson Doubleday
• John R. Gambling
• Richard Grasso
• Steven Hoffenberg
• Rudyard Kipling
• Henry Phipps Jr.
• C. W. Post
• Marjory Gengler
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Harry Payne Whitney
• Harrison Williams (entrepreneur)
• William Kissam Vanderbilt
• Julian Robertson
• Lee Ainslie
• Louis Bacon
• Jabez A. Bostwick
• Robert A. Lovett
• William Robertson Coe
• Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
• Theodore Roosevelt III
• Rand Araskog
• John W. Davis
• Ogden Phipps
• Isobel Coleman
• Fred Wilpon
• John Havens
• August Belmont Jr.
• C. Z. Guest
• F. Trubee Davison
• Henry P. Davison
• Ray Johnson
• H. H. Kung
• Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
• Douglas A. Warner III
• Irving Brokaw
• William Woodward Sr.

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