Olive Boulevard:
Before Sunrise Highway opened in 1929, as the gateway to the south shore, there was a smaller road that ran through Freeport known by a few different names:
Mud Lane; Dirt Road; Gooseneck Avenue; City Street; Long Island Boulevard; Nameless Boulevard; Park Boulevard; and Aqua Boulevard.
In 1912, the Village Board agree to give the road the official name "Olive Boulevard" at the request of Jacob Post. Post, a real estate developer, built the "Olive Building" in 1911 on the southeast corner of South Main Street and what he called Olive Boulevard. When completed, the Olive Building was the largest building in the Village.
Olive Building
Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 19 May 1912, p. 5
Sanborn Map, 1917
