" Where can you find a better place for skating than on the twin lakes - Willow Lake and Lily Lake ? Children large and small, have fun enough in the healthy and exhilarating exercise and sport..."- Patchogue Advance, Dec. 9, 1882, We Always Loved our Lakes
- Karen Mouzakes,
Yaphank Historical Society


GALLERY OF THE YAPHANK LAKES

Permission to publish the following documents and photographs from the early years of the Yaphank Community and the Lakes was generously provided to us by the Yaphank Historical Society.