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Stony Point Lighthouse, a small white stone tower with an octagonal glass lantern, stands on a grassy hill surrounded by trees in Stony Point, New York.
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Stony Point Lighthouse, a small white stone tower with an octagonal glass lantern, stands on a grassy hill surrounded by trees in Stony Point, New York.
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Stony Point

New York, United States
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Stony Point, unincorporated village and town (township), Rockland county, southeastern New York, U.S. It lies on the west bank of the Hudson River, about 38 miles (61 km) north of midtown New York City. The name derives from the rocky promontory jutting into the Hudson. The Stony Point Battlefield State Historic Site (part of the Palisades Interstate Park) commemorates an event in July 1779 during the American Revolution, when a strongly fortified British post was...

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