Penn Yan and Keuka Lake

While "Penn Yan" may sound like an Anglicized Chinese dish, it most certainly isn't—the unique name was chosen because the first people to settle in the village in 1833 on the edge of New York's Keuka Lake were comprised of Yankees from New England and Pennsylvania. The town's name is just one of the many distinctive aspects of Penn Yan and Keuka Lake's intriguing past; the town has long had a comm...