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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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Mr. Rivera owned a $780,000 home with a heated swimming pool and waterfall in Stony Point, N.Y., and another house in the Poconos.

From New York Times Feb. 7, 2022

Another is Camp Bullowa in Stony Point, where a local official has inquired as to whether the town could purchase it and maintain it for scouting and other recreation.

From Seattle Times Jul. 2, 2021

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

Written while sailing in an open boat on the Hudson River, between Stony Point and the Highlands, on seeing the wreck of an old sloop, June, 1821.

From Fanny With Other Poems by Halleck, Fitz-Greene

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