April General Meeting


Guest Speaker: Jim Ward, Librarian 

and Historian


Tropic: The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth (Following the April 1865 Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln)


Thursday, April 17, 2025

7:30 pm @ Swezey-Avey House

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May 2025 General Meeting


Guest Speaker: Dale Spencer, 

History Island Radio Show Host 


Topic: Lake Ronkonkoma – “What a Time it Was”


Thursday, May 15, 2025

7:30 pm @ Swezey-Avey House

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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, 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) 775-0735 to make an appointment or email us at [email protected] 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.

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