Tanners Pond Revisited

Cherry Valley Road sits in a small valley for much of its course.  Like Tanner Valley, Cherry Valley moves in a north south orientation:

It runs from the intersection of 11^th Street, all the way down to southern border of the village.  We can see the slight valley on this typographical map in the deeper green color:

At the north end of Cherry Valley Avenue are some of the “steep” hills we see in the north end of Tanners Valley:

The dry valley of Cherry Valley Road quickly becomes a stream just south of the village:

 

As detailed in Hidden Waters this stream flows down to Valley Stream Brook.  

Looking at the map further out there are only two dry valleys in Garden City:

Tanners Pond to the left, and Cherry Valley to the right, cross both the north and south border of Garden City.

Hidden Waters says this about the terminal point of Cherry Valley:

“To the north of Hempstead Turnpike on Cherry Valley Avenue, there is a public works storage yard. Often, public utilities such as salt storage, depots and garages used by local governments stand at sites once used for pumping stations, as I’ve found with the Kissena Park DOT storage yard.”

This is the Village of Garden City’s Department of Public Works Yard.  Just north of it is the Garden City Pool.  When I was a child trash was still being burned in the yard.   Sometimes when swimming, charred paper would fly into the pool.

 

This part of southern Garden City juts out unlike the other, more rectangular lines on the borders.  Could this have been a pumping station?  The 1926 aerial photo shows the outlines of the street only:

The 1950 aerial views shows more development, and perhaps the first buildings to become the pool, but no buildings where the municipal yard is now located.