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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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Cedar Pond Brook in Stony Point was flowing over the road and into private properties, according to WABC.

From Seattle Times Jul. 9, 2023

In 1954, after foraging in the woods around the Stony Point artists’ colony in upstate New York, Cage began to feel unwell after eating poisonous hellebore, which he had mistaken for the similar skunk cabbage.

From The Guardian Aug. 19, 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

This failure, with the fifteen hundred men it would take to garrison Stony Point against the enemy's shipping, caused Washington to demolish and abandon the fort.

From The Little Washingtons' Travels by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth

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