Yaphank Almshouse Cemetery

The Almshouse Cemetery was an active burial ground from 1872 to 1953. It is located adjacent to the old location of the Suffolk County Almshouse, otherwise known as the poorhouse. The poorhouse was a catch-all place where the mentally ill, poor, and criminal classes of society were often left to live out their days. The Yaphank Almshouse was used as the final resting place for  those who were unclaimed by family after thier deaths. Most of the burials are marked only by small numbered headstones, and the cemetery has around a thousand people interred.