The Library movement began in 1925. Long Beach grew from sandbar to a city. Long Beach Public School District was established August 1, 1913. Long Beach was rapidly growing. The Magnolia School opened in 1915 and by 1926 West School, East School opened and a new Jr. & Sr. High School was proposed. In an article from the newspaper “Long Beach Life” February 27, 1926, “A Public Library” states, “A stranger to the city might very properly ask, “Where is the Public Library?” and who would not be ashamed to admit there is no such institution here. Not only is there no public Library in Long Beach, but so far as we can learn there is no provisions for the establishment of one.” There were three organizations who were the champions in the establishment of the library: The Long Beach Woman’s Club, Long Beach Lions Club and the Property Owner’s Association. Each organization tried to create a library for the community.

The first class of Long Beach High School graduated in 1924 but the first known edition of "The Echo" was published a year prior to that in 1923. In 2019, the Long Beach Public Library began the process of digitizing the yearbook collection. The collection is updated periodically.

In July 1953, Nassau County Executive A. Holly Patterson awarded a $5 million construction contract to Merritt-Chapman and Scott Corporation of New York to build a replacement for the overburdened and outdated Long Beach Bridge. Construction of the east span of the new bridge was completed in May 1955, and the west span was finished fourteen months later. The bridge connects Long Beach to Island Park and spans Reynolds Channel.

In 1667, Captain John Underhill negotiated with the Matinecock Indians to purchase land for a settlement that he and his fellow colonists would call Buckram. The town name lasted for nearly 200 years, until in 1856 the name was changed to Locust Valley based on the number of locust trees located in the area.
On April 19, 1869, the Long Island Rail Road opened the extension of the Glen Cove line, via a single track to Locust Valley, making it the terminus of the line until the railroad was extended to its current terminus in Oyster Bay in 1889.
With the arrival of the Long Island Rail Road, a commercial center developed and thrived around the Locust Valley station and the nearby intersection of Forest Ave/Buckram Road and Birch Hill Road. As the North Shore of Long Island grew into the Gold Coast in the early 20th century, the commercial center grew to serve the great estates that were being established in the surrounding communities of Bayville, Centre Island, Lattingtown, Mill Neck, Matinecock, Muttontown and The Brookvilles.

In 1797 the first classes were taught to Liverpool children at the salt works at the foot of Tulip Street. In the years to follow classes were held in a barn, a log home and a school building in the middle of the woods in Johnson Park. The location of the school was changed twice more in the 1800’s with an official school district being laid out in 1839.
In 1848 a school at Tulip and Second Street was built, followed by several annexes and some private schools that sprung up to serve the increasing population. A junior-senior high school opened in 1929 on Fourth and Hickory Streets in the village; this building later housed AV Zogg Middle School and is now privately owned. A new high school was built on the willow fields of Wetzel Road in 1967. Liverpool High School currently consists of two buildings on its sprawling campus.

The St. Lawrence-Lewis School Library System collection consists of high school yearbooks from area high schools. The Score was the annual yearbook of Lisbon Central School dating between 1942 and 1950 and currently The Echo since 1953.