Throwback Thursday: Heer Park Development

The best thing about our communities is our ability to take a peak back into the past and see the visual changes our forefathers made on our the places we live.

Occasionally, we here at Patch will dig up or find some older photographs, videos and more to share with the community to do a bit of time travel into what was and, now, what is.

Lindenhurst has always been a village where certain areas have been noted by other names – Venetian Shores, the American Venice (although, part of Copiague) and Heer Park.

The development began as a housing development owned by the Heer Brothers – Francis and Lawrence – in the early 1900's. While the development is now just another section in the village, the Heer Park Civic Association retains the name for the area of South Lindy.