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America 250 Commemorative Celebration

and the Yaphank 300 Celebration

Topic: Women in Colonial Times—

The Work is Never Done!


Guest Speaker: Diane Schwindt,

Culinary and Cultural Historian

and Founder of Stirring Up History


Sunday June 28th 2026

2-4 pm @ Swezey-Avey House


Refreshments will follow the election


Please click here for our 250th Anniversary celebration events.


It is the Society’s mission to collect, preserve and interpret the history of Yaphank and its surrounding area. 


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The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation

Special Thanks for the many generous grants. View the most recent award for the restoration 

of the Hawkins Family Cemetery.


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Thanks to The Suffolk County Department 

of Parks, Division of Historic Services,

which manages over 200 historic structures containing an array of buildings, gardens and sites of cultural and historical significance.


The Swezey Family


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. To visit, call (631) 775-0735 to make an appointment or email us at info@yaphankhistorical.org 

to make an appointment.


The Weeks Family Legacy


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.




Coalition To Save The Yaphank Lakes

We are committed to clean and protect our

lakes, eradicate the invasive aquatic plants, restore their natural beauty, and preserve and protect the entire Carmans River environment.


Visit https://savetheyaphanklakes.org for more.

Our Shop features Yaphank and area history books; new, vintage & “almost-new” treasures.