Editing Carle Place, New York (section)

==History==
In 1946, developer [[William Levitt|William J. Levitt]] bought 19 acres of land near the [[Carle Place station|Carle Place train station]] for an experiment.<ref name=":81">{{Cite book|last=Winsche|first=Richard|title=The History of Nassau County Community Place-Names|date=October 1, 1999|publisher=Empire State Books|isbn=978-1557871541|location=[[Interlaken, New York]]|pages=23}}</ref> His crews brought pre-cut lumber to the site and rapidly assembled 600 low-cost houses, offering affordable suburban living with an easy commute into offices in New York City. Within five years, returning veterans and their families swelled the population by 500 percent. It transformed Carle Place, and served as the prototype for [[Levittown, New York|Levittown]], the larger development which Levitt began the following year only a few miles away.<ref>[http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-historytown-hist0025,0,3050766.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation Carle Place - New York, Turning Point - Newsday.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

The hamlet is named for the Carle House – a 32-room house built by Silas Carle in Westbury in the 1800s. It was commonly known as the "Carle Place", and the surrounding area later took the name.<ref name=":81" /> The house still stands today, near the intersection of Jericho Turnpike and Carle Road.

The area was also known as Mineola Park between ''circa'' 1895 and 1915, after an unsuccessful real estate development of the same name within the hamlet.<ref name=":81" /> The name was reverted to Carle Place in 1915, and there was only one further attempt to change it, which took place in 1951 after Levitt & Sons purchased and developed much of the area consisting of the unsuccessful development.<ref name=":81" /> The proposal failed, as the majority of residents preferred keeping the name, and no attempts to change it have taken place since.<ref name=":81" />

Another historic name for the area is Frog Hollow, which is still used colloquially and is the source of the [[Carle Place Union Free School District|Carle Place School District]]'s mascot.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Liotti|first=Village Justice Tom|date=2014-10-15|title=Frog Hollow|url=https://thewestburytimes.com/2014/10/frog-hollow/|access-date=2021-08-25|website=The Westbury Times|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Carle Place School District District {{!}} History of the Frog|url=http://www.cps.k12.ny.us/district/history_of_the_frog|access-date=2021-08-25|website=www.cps.k12.ny.us}}</ref>