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Spring Valley

Spring Valley used to be called Scotland, after Scottish settlers' home. The new name came from a big natural spring that bubbled up into a pond in the valley. It became a village in 1902 and is Rockland's biggest village, home to about 33,000 people.

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Spring Valley used to be called Scotland

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Spring Valley used to be called Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Scottish settlers named it after home.

The new name came from one big natural spring that bubbled up into a pond right in the valley.

The spring + the valley = Spring Valley.

Today it's Rockland's biggest village, home to about 33,000 people.

Credits

"Thatched Villagers" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 4.0
Public domain: Erie Railroad station, Spring Valley NY, c. 1910 postcard (Wikimedia Commons)

Why Rockland has so many villages

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Why does Rockland have so many little villages? 🏘️

In the 1840s, Rockland was all farms. Then the Erie Railroad came through Suffern, and New York City was suddenly a train ride away.

Wherever the train stopped, life showed up. Suffern became a village in 1896, Spring Valley in 1902.

Then in 1967, Pomona neighbors said "not here" to apartments on land meant for one-acre homes, and formed their own village to make their own rules.

Wesley Hills, Chestnut Ridge, Montebello and Kaser followed. New City and Monsey never did. They're still hamlets.

Credits

"Americana" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 4.0
Public domain: "American Farm Scenes No. 1" (Fanny Palmer for N. Currier, 1853) & "The Express Train" (Currier & Ives, 1870), Library of Congress; Suffern station (James E. Bailey, c.1910); Spring Valley Erie station postcard (1910). Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors

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