If you think St. Vladimir Street and Cossacks Place have Russian origins, you’re right. Here’s the story: In 1952, several Russian Orthodox families who had fled the Soviet Union formed a group called Our Home Association, pooled their resources, and put a down payment on 17 acres of farmland here. They lived in tents and an old barn before developing the property into single family homes in 1955 and naming these two streets. Several of the residents had actually been Cossack horsemen in Czarist Russia, hence Cossack Place; St. Vladimir Street honors the Kyiv prince who brought Christianity to his country in the late 10th century. One structure on Cossack Place opened in 1958 as a Russian Orthodox church dubbed St. Andrew’s; it later served as a community center and is now a private home.
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