80th Anniversary of D-Day Invasion of Europe at Normandy, France

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.  It is just one square mile in size with shops and boutiques, a library, firehouse and a Long Island Railroad 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 Native American group that inhabited the north shore of Long Island..

Today, when most residents speak of the “Locust Valley” area, they include the surrounding incorporated villages of Lattingtown, Matinecock, and Mill Neck.  This area encompasses historic landmarks and celebrity homes, as well as two exclusive private golf clubs: The Creek Club (founded in Lattingtown in 1923 by J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr.) and the Piping Rock Club in Matinecock,