Stony Brook (Charles River tributary, Weston)

[1] As early as 1662, water flowing into the Charles River helped spark business enterprise.

In about 1802, another mill was built on Stony Brook to manufacture wrapping paper [2] In the late 19th century, Eben Norton Horsford identified the mouth of Stony Brook as the location of a supposed Norse city, Norumbega,[3] and commissioned the Norumbega Tower, which carries a long inscription describing the supposed city.

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.

[4] Stony Brook Reservoir has a drainage area of 23.57 square miles (61.0 km2) and an available storage capacity of 354,000,000 US gallons (1,340,000 m3) (1087 acre-feet).

[5] Its drainage area is 7.25 square miles (18.8 km2) and its storage capacity is 2,338,000,000 US gallons (8,850,000 m3) (7178 acre-feet).