History of Ronkonkomas details 3 population waves
Photo credit: Lake Ronkonkoma Historical Society | A beach pavilion on Lake Ronkonkoma in the 1920s.
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A lot of people will say that their families have been in Lake Ronkonkoma from the beginning.
But what most of them mean is that their families have lived there since the 1950s, when an influx of people moved from Brooklyn, Manhattan and Nassau County, and made a permanent residence out of what was previously a summer resort town.
For Jim Browne, he has lived in the area for 78 years...
