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Treats for Tots at Robert Hawkins House in Yaphank
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On Friday, October 30 and Saturday, October 31, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., the Yaphank Historical Society, which celebrates its 35th anniversary this year, will welcome ghosts and goblins (ages 12 and under accompanied by an adult), to their fifth annual Halloween Treat for Tots at the Robert Hawkins House. The House and Society members will be costumed ghoulishly! Packaged treats will be given out.
The Hawkins House is located at the corner of Main Street and Yaphank Avenue, County Route 21, north of the Long Island Expressway.
Dating from 1853, the Hawkins House is the only early Victorian home in the area. In 1850, Robert Hewlett Hawkins (1817-1855) began construction of his residence (Robert Hawkins House) on Yaphank avenue, Yaphank, New York that was home to him, his wife Isabelle (Swezey) Hawkins and their then three children, Elizabeth Tuthill, Isabelle S. and Rebecca Larissa. Robert Hewlitt, Jr., a fourth child was born in 1856.
The Italianate Style house remained in the Hawkins family until 1887. It is now owned by Suffolk County and is part of the Parks Department Historic Trust. It is now under restoration by the County in conjunction with the Yaphank Historical Society. http://www.yaphankhistorical.org/hist_hh_restore.html
"Yaphank is very nearly the geographical center of Long Island and is the outgrowth of one of the divisions of Brookhaven town lands made in 1739. As the little village lies on the east side of Long Island’s Connecticut River (corrupted from the Unkechaug Indian dialect of the Algonquin word “quonnetukqut” meaning a long, tidal river or creek), several water—powered woolen, grist and sawmills were established there in Colonial times and the village became known as Millville. Sometime about 1844, when the railroad was put through the village, the name was changed to Yaphank, taking the Indian name of a small creek which lies about 3 miles directly south, in Yamphanke Neck, now South Haven." - Osborn Shaw, Brookhaven Town Historian, 1947Related Articles:
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