Stony Point

American  

noun

1. a village in SE New York, on the Hudson: site of a strategic fort in the Revolutionary War.

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Example Sentences

Among the many highlights of John Cage: A Mycological Foray are William Gedney’s candid photographs of Cage on a foraging expedition in the woods around Stony Point in 1967.

From The Guardian • Aug. 19, 2020

It was the gateway to the Hudson Highlands, a way to get supplies to several defensive river forts including Stony Point, Fort Clinton and Fort Montgomery.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2020

But it opened at Brancato’s Penguin Rep Theatre in Stony Point, N.Y., in 2000 and has been traveling to regional theaters ever since.

From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2017

Richards, who taught literature and drama, abandoned her husband for another faculty member, the composer David Tudor; together with Cage and others, they soon established the fabled commune the Land in Stony Point, New York.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2015

Celebration of the Capture of Stony Point, 420.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various