{"nrhp_refnum":"77000953","name":"Valley Road Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"S of Manhasset on Community Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Manhasset","county":"Nassau County","state":"NY","lat":40.77422794300003,"lon":-73.70347019799993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-04-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Historic - Aboriginal","Religion","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-acre historic district along Community Drive (formerly Valley Road) near Manhasset, Nassau County, New York, containing the surviving remains of the community of Success: an 1833 church, a cemetery, two nineteenth-century houses, three later buildings and archaeological sites.","why_significant":"The district is all that remains of Success, a community of free Blacks, former slaves and Matinecock Indians established along Valley Road in 1829. It illustrates the blending of Black and Indian cultures and their role in the social development of Long Island in the nineteenth century. The sites may also yield further information about community life.","narrative":"Along Community Drive, once called Valley Road, near Manhasset, a five-acre wooded strip preserves the last traces of Success, a community founded in 1829 by free Blacks, former slaves and Matinecock Indians. Success once had more than thirty buildings stretching nearly a mile; road widening, hospital growth, urban renewal and suburban development removed most of them. What remains is the 1833 Lakeville A.M.E. Zion Church and its cemetery, two nineteenth-century frame houses, three later buildings, and the sites of a vanished house and of \"Institution U.S.A.,\" the first free Black public school in present Nassau County, built in 1867. The cemetery holds the graves of Matinecock Indians, African slaves and freedmen, and founding families. Residents worked as farmers, stock breeders, baymen and tradesmen, and later on nearby estates. The district is recognized for its link to Black and Indian culture on Long Island and for its archaeological potential.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Mostly occupied; the church remains in use as a house of worship, the cemetery is neglected, one early house is in poor repair, and the 1920s parsonage is unoccupied.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.73288-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/77000953.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319223","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Road_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130749368"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/nassau-county/valley-road-historic-district-77000953/"}