STONY BROOK

 

Stony Brook 1928 Aerial View. Lots of woods.

 

 

I don't know much more about the Penney's stay in Stony Brook than I do of their time in Yaphank. They were here for several years from around 1928 to '33. Both of their children would of been born by this time and I do know they had a phone. They also had another home. A "winter residence" in Johns Island, South Carolina. (Near Charleston ) I know even less about their place in South Carolina, (I've been to Charleston & Beaufort in the low country area ) other than they still had it when they lived in Hampton Bays. Like the rest of her family, Claire got around.

The Suffolk County Phone Book for 1929 Lists W. O. Penney as living on North Counntry Road (That would be 25 A today) It also shows his brother Clarence in Moriches. There are also references to Clairedale Kennels in Stony Brook in several AKC records.

 

The Town in the 1940's

Long Island artist William Sidney Mount (1807-1868) did many paintings of the

Stony Brook, Setauket area. It is still steeped in colonialism

 

THE PENNEYS SOLD THEIR STONY BROOK PLACE

ON AUGUST 10th 1933

This would be Claire Knapp Penney's Last Move as she located to

HAMPTON BAYS