What is "stony brook"

Stony Brook, Stonybrook or Stoney Brook may refer to:

Stony Brook, also known as Stoney Brook, is a tributary of the Millstone River in Mercer County, New Jersey in the United States.

Stony Brook is a tributary of Green Brook in central New Jersey in the United States.

Stony Brook was a Boston and Maine Railroad station in Weston, Massachusetts along what is currently the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Fitchburg Line. The station was located adjacent to the Upper Post Road ( US-20), with a building on the inbound (southwest) side of the tracks. It is named for Stony Brook, which runs through Weston.

When the Central Massachusetts Railroad was first being planned in the late 1870s, it was to have diverged from the Fitchburg Railroad mainline at Stony Brook Junction, just past the station. However, a separate route through Waltham was built instead, and the Central Mass instead crossed the Fitchburg on a bridge at Stony Brook Junction.

This station was closed and the building removed by 1951 due to the construction of Massachusetts Route 128 and the new rotary interchange with US-20. In 1973, the MBTA proposed building a number of new parking garages to serve suburban commuters. One possible location was at the former Stony Brook site, but nothing came of that plan.

Stony Brook is a river located in southern New Hampshire in the United States. It is a tributary of the Souhegan River, which flows to the Merrimack River and ultimately to the Gulf of Maine.

Stony Brook rises in the town of Greenfield, New Hampshire, on the northern slopes of North Pack Monadnock Mountain. It flows southeast through the town of Lyndeborough, reaching the Souhegan in the mill town of Wilton.

It is paralleled for most of its length by New Hampshire Route 31 and by the former Hillsboro Branch of the Boston and Maine Railroad.

Stony Brook is a historic station on the Port Jefferson Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located in Stony Brook on the southeast side of New York State Route 25A, across the street from the intersection of Route 25A with Cedar Street. On the opposite side of the tracks is the State University of New York at Stony Brook. There is also an at-grade pedestrian crossing between the station and a parking lot at the University. This train station is located in the Three Village Central School District.

Stony Brook is a tributary of Mehoopany Creek in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately long and flows through North Branch township and Forkston Township. The brook has a tributary known as Red Brook. Logging was done in the upper reaches of the watershed of Stony Brook in the early 1900s.

Stony Brook is a rapid transit station on the MBTA Orange Line, located below grade at Boylston Street in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The station was opened on May 4, 1987 as part of the Southwest Corridor project, replacing an earlier station that was open from 1897 to 1940. After nearby Green Street, it is the second-least-busy station on the Orange Line, with 3,652 daily boardings by a 2013 count.

Stony Brook is a tributary of Fishing Creek in Columbia County, Pennsylvania. It is long and flows through North Centre Township and Orange Township. The stream's watershed has an area of 3.72 square miles. It flows through a steep ravine which is inhabited by numerous plant species for much of its length. The fossil-rich Stony Brook Beds also have an outcropping near the stream. In the 1870s, it was considered for use as a water supply by the Bloomsburg Water Company.

Stony Brook was formerly a major watercourse in the city of Boston, USA. It originates at Turtle Pond in the Stony Brook Reservation; it flows through Hyde Park, Roslindale, Jamaica Plain, and Roxbury. It formerly emptied into the Back Bay, a tidal part of the Charles River.

In the 18th century, water-powered industry grew up along it (including Pierpoint('s) Mill) and it served as the sewer (excluding human waste) for the neighborhoods it ran through.

The Boston and Providence Railroad (now the Providence/Stoughton Line) was built along the valley of Stony Brook in 1834.

In the 19th century, many breweries and other industries grew up along Stony Brook.

In the late 19th century, various parts of Stony Brook were converted into underground culverts or sewers. In around 1882, the Back Bay Fens were dredged to convert them into a holding basin for storm overflow from Stony Brook, following Olmsted's plan, and at around the same time its waters were diverted into an intercepting sewer near the current Ruggles Station.

Stony Brook is a stream largely running through Weston, Massachusetts, then forming the Weston/ Waltham boundary, and emptying into the Charles River across from the Waltham/ Newton boundary. It has two tributaries, Cherry Brook and Hobbs Brook, and its watershed includes about half of Lincoln and Weston as well as parts of Lexington and Waltham. Since 1887, it has been the water supply for Cambridge.

In the early 19th century, there was a paper mill at the mouth of Stony Brook.

In the late 19th century, Eben Norton Horsford identified the mouth of Stony Brook as the location of a supposed Norse city, Norumbega, and commissioned the Norumbega Tower, which carries a long inscription describing the supposed city.

There are three large ponds, all artificial, in the Stony Brook watershed: the Cambridge Reservoir (Hobbs Pond), the Stony Brook Reservoir (Turtle Pond), and Flint's Pond (also known as Sandy Pond). In 1887, on the site of Turtle Pond, the city of Cambridge completed construction of the Stony Brook Reservoir Dam where Stony Brook joins the Charles as part of its water supply. In 1910, Hobbs Pond was dammed to become the Cambridge Reservoir. Flint's Pond (also known as Sandy Pond) was dammed to become the reservoir for the town of Lincoln; the DeCordova Museum is on its southeast bank.

Stony Brook (formerly Shawpocussing Creek) is a tributary of the Delaware River located along the eastern face of Kittatinny Mountain in Warren County in northwestern New Jersey in the United States. It rises along Kittatinny Mountain, and flows into the Delaware at the base of Mount Tammany, a prominence of Kittatinny Mountain that forms the New Jersey side of the Delaware Water Gap near Columbia in Knowlton Township. The Appalachian Trail passes within its watershed and crosses the creek as it traverses the ridgeline of Kittatinny Mountain.