More than 11 acres of Wells Farm in Aquebogue preserved as farmland
Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone announces the preservation of just over 11 acres in Aquebogue at a press conference last Wednesday. (Courtesy photo) The children of the late Lyle Wells — who died in a tractor accident in January 2018 — have now sold the development rights to 11.16 acres of farmland on Phillips Lane in Aquebogue. The Wells family has been farming since 1661, when this parcel was one of the original land grants William Wells received from the Town of Southold. It was then farmed by the Wells family for 12 generations, according to Riverhead C...