Stony Brook - Gone But Not Forgotten

There's a new Stony Brook Reservation Resource Management Plan available online here . It's not particularly relevant to the histori...

Since this site is in typical blog form, the entries run from bottom to top. For some entries, like the old newspaper articles, it doesn...

Here's an interesting nugget from 1876: there was consideration given to diverting some of the water from Stony Brook to the Neponset R...

Meehan street, between Williams street and Rossmore road 2007. Amory street, 2007 Since I've figured out how to link to off-site picture...

Stony Brook Reservation, outflow pipes from Washington street 2007. Outflow conduit from under Harvard street Bridge at old Mattapan Hospita...

Turtle pond, 2007. I'm adding a picture of Turtle Pond today. There's no vantage point to take in the whole pond, so I went with a ...

View Larger Map View Larger Map In a previous entry, I posted about the Canterbury brook, and discussed searching out the above-ground sect...

For such an insignificant stream, Stony Brook has attracted its share of tragedy. Apparently, when there is no Golden Gate Bridge, people i...

Some nice background from one hundred years ago on the trouble Stony brook caused Roxbury and Boston before it was put permanently undergro...

As I've searched out the path of Stony Brook, I've come across more than one "Brook"-named street, so I thought I'd...

Here's an interesting feature article - they just don't write like this any more. Please note the literary references. Taken at his...

Here are two articles from 1902. Both concern the intersection of Green st and Brookside ave, so they go together nicely. Boston Globe...

Hyde Park avenue - showing Brookway Terrace The mysterious tunnel. Sanford Fire Insurance Map (courtesy of the Jamaica Plain Historical Soci...