Nature Trail Walk Led By: MaryLaura Lamont, Naturalist and Yaphank Historical Society Board Member
Meet at the Homan-Gerard House parking lot, 5 Yaphank Avenue
Sunday, May 5, 2024 (Rain cancels the program) 10:00 am – 11:30 am
May General Meeting Guest Speaker: Kathy Schmidt, Yaphank Historical Society Honorary Lifetime Board Member and Founding Society Member Topic: “The Early Years: Preservation to Restoration of the Robert H. and
Isabella Hawkins House” Thursday, May 16, 2024 7:30 pm @ Swezey-Avey House
Refreshments will follow the meeting. | It is the Society’s mission to collect, preserve and interpret the history of Yaphank and its surrounding area.
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| Visit the Swezey family exhibit in the Swezey-Avey House. The Swezey family arrived in Southold in the mid-1600s and in Yaphank in the 1700s. Come learn about the family’s lives into the 20th century, including the lives of Dr. Gilbert Hopkins Swezey and his daughter Dr. Sarah Swezey-Avey, the last Swezey family member to have lived in the house from 1944 to about 1960. To visit, call 631.924.4803 to make an appointment or email us at [email protected] to make an appointment.
Yaphank’s most important family, the Weeks, settled in Millville (now Yaphank) in 1828. Portraitist William Sydney Mount was commissioned to paint James Huggins Weeks and his wife Susan Maria, in 1838. See this permanent exhibit at the Swezey-Avey House.
Our Library Collection, searchable by author, title, subject, and date, and our Archives with online Finding Aid, make excellent research tools.
Our Gift Shop features Yaphank and area history books; new, vintage & “almost-new” treasures. |