The developers who made a summer lake community — and spelled their partnership into its name.
Two generations of one family turned an old highlands farm into a lakeside summer colony — and wrote their partnership into its name: “Fay” plus “son,” Fayson Lakes.
1925→
DocumentedThe real-estate developer Frank Fay Jr. and his son Frank Fay III bought 240 acres of the old Fredericks–Kitchell land in 1925 and laid out a summer lake community, filing the subdivision map in 1927 and inviting residents to form the Fayson Lakes Association soon after. The name reads as “Fay” plus “son.” East Lake followed in 1931 and South Lake in the 1950s, and the farm became a colony of lakeside homes.
The family record
Father-and-son developers who turned the old Fredericks farm into the lakeside colony of Fayson Lakes.
Frank Fay Jr. — elected mayor of Kinnelon in 1931 — and his son Frank Fay III developed Fayson Lakes on the former Fredericks–Kitchell land, filing the subdivision map in 1927; the name reads as “Fay + son.” Fay Jr. invited residents to form the Fayson Lakes Association in 1930.
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Fayson Lakes — the former Fredericks–Kitchell land
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