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History

The first non-indigenous settler arrived around 1770. The Town of Woodstock was established in 1787. Later, Woodstock contributed some of its territory to form the Towns of Middletown (1789), Windham (1798), Shandaken (1804), and Olive (1853). Year 1787 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Middletown is a town located in Delaware County, New York. ... Windham is a town located in Greene County, New York, on the northern boundary of the Catskill_Park. ... Shandaken is a town located in Ulster County, New York, U.S.. USA. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 3,235. ... Olive is a town located in Ulster County, New York. ...

The Arts and Crafts Movement came to Woodstock around 1902, and, afterwards, Woodstock was always considered an active artist colony in the 19th and early 20th century, including playing host to numerous Hudson River School painters. Its reputation as an arts center contributed to the original Woodstock Festival's organizers planning their concert around the town. Such American painters as E. Charlton Fortune and Spencer Trask were known to use the Woodstock venue. Artichoke wallpaper, by John Henry Dearle for William Morris & Co. ... Thomas Coles View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm, or The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism. ... Woodstock redirects here. ... E. Charlton Fortune (1885-1969} was a famous California artist who flourished on the Monterey Peninsula of California within the style of Impressionism. ... Mr. ...

The Woodstock Elgin Creamery was established in 1898 at a site now located on the corner of Maple Lane and Deanies Alley.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 175.8 km² (67.9 mi²). 174.8 km² (67.5 mi²) of it is land and 0.9 km² (0.4 mi²) of it (0.53%) is water. The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census as defined in Title ) is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. ... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ... A square mile is an English unit of area equal to that of a square with sides each 1 statute mile (≈1,609 m) in length. ...

The north town line is the border of Greene County. Greene County is a county located in the state of New York. ...

Demographics

As of the census² of 2000, there were 6,241 people, 2,946 households, and 1,626 families residing in the town. The population density was 35.7/km² (92.5/mi²). There were 3,847 housing units at an average density of 22.0/km² (57.0/mi²). The racial makeup of the town was 94.25% White, 1.30% Black or African American, 0.21% Native American, 1.57% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.79% from other races, and 1.87% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.56% of the population. Image:1870 census Lindauer Weber 01. ... The following is a list of sources used in the creation of encyclopedia articles on various geographic topics and locations, such as cities, counties, states, and countries. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... It has been suggested that Ethnicity (United States Census) be merged into this article or section. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... It has been suggested that Ethnicity (United States Census) be merged into this article or section. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...

There were 2,946 households out of which 21.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.2% were married couples living together, 7.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 44.8% were non-families. 35.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.10 and the average family size was 2.71. Marriage is an interpersonal relationship with governmental, social, or religious recognition, usually intimate and sexual, and often created as a contract, or through civil process. ...

In the town the population was spread out with 18.0% under the age of 18, 3.7% from 18 to 24, 23.0% from 25 to 44, 38.0% from 45 to 64, and 17.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 48 years. For every 100 females there were 94.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.1 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $49,217, and the median income for a family was $65,938. Males had a median income of $41,500 versus $33,672 for females. The per capita income for the town was $32,133. About 6.9% of families and 10.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12.8% of those under age 18 and 3.9% of those age 65 or over. The per capita income for a group of people may be defined as their total personal income, divided by the total population. ... Map of countries showing percentage of population who have an income below the national poverty line The poverty line is the level of income below which one cannot afford to purchase all the resources one requires to live. ...

Woodstock Music and Art

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The 1903 Byrdcliffe art colony is the nation's oldest Arts & Crafts colony. It brought the first artists to Woodstock to teach and produce furniture, metal works, ceramics, weaving and established Woodstock's first painting school. Byrdcliffe forever changed the cultural landscape of the Town of Woodstock. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... See also Artist collective An art colony or artists colony is a place where arts practitioners, usually visual artists and craftspeople, live and interact with one another. ... For the UK band, see Furniture (band). ... This article is about metallic materials. ... Ancient Egyptian ceramic art: Louvre Museum. ... Tweed loom, Harris, 2004 Woven sheet Weaving is an ancient textile art and craft that involves placing two sets of threads or yarn called the warp and weft of the loom and turning them into cloth. ... For other uses , see Painting (disambiguation). ... The Dresden Elbe Valley World Heritage Site is according to the UNESCO an outstanding example of land use, representing an exceptional development of a major Central-European city having almost half a million inhabitants // [edit] Cultural landscape is defined as the human-modified environment, including fields, houses, church, highways, planted...

In 1916, utopian philosopher and poet Hervey White built a "music chapel" in the woods. It was the Maverick Concert Series, the beginning of what is now the oldest, continuous chamber music festival in America. Composers such as Henry Cowel, John Cage, Robert Starrer and Peter Schickele created works that were premiered there. Today, this hand-built concert hall with perfect acoustics, is a multi-starred attraction on the National Register of Historic Places with world-class musicians playing there from June to September. See Utopia (disambiguation) for other meanings of this word Utopia, in its most common and general meaning, refers to a hypothetical perfect society. ... A philosopher is a person who thinks deeply regarding people, society, the world, and/or the universe. ... The poor poet A poet is a person who writes poetry. ... Look up maverick in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. ... For other uses, see Festival (disambiguation). ... Composers are people who write music. ... For the Mortal Kombat character, see Johnny Cage. ... Peter Schickele (born Johann Peter Schickele, July 17, 1935) is an American composer, musical educator and parodist, perhaps best known for his comedy music albums featuring music he wrote as P. D. Q. Bach. ... A Concert hall is a cultural building, which serves as performance venue, chiefly for classical instrumental music. ... Acoustics is the branch of physics concerned with the study of sound (mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids). ... A typical plaque showing entry on the National Register of Historic Places. ... For other uses, see June (disambiguation). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

The town is home to the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM), one of the oldest artists organizations. The WAAM Permanent Collection features work by important American artists associated with the region, including Milton Avery, George Bellows, Edward Leigh Chase, Frank Swift Chase, Marion Greenwood, Philip Guston, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and many others. WAAM founders were John Carlson, Frank Swift Chase, Andrew Dasburg, Carl Lindin, and Henry Lee McFee. The Art Students League of New York's summer school was in Woodstock for nearly fifteen years from 1906 until 1922, and again after the end of World War II from 1947 until 1979. The Woodstock School of Art has been operating since 1980. An organisation (or organization — see spelling differences) is a social arrangement which pursues collective goals, which controls its own performance, and which has a boundary separating it from its environment. ... Milton Avery (March 7, 1885 – January 3, 1965) was an American modern painter. ... George Bellows George Wesley Bellows (August 19, 1882 - January 8, 1925) was an American painter, known for his bold depictions of urban life in New York City. ... Edward Leigh Chase (1884-1965) was an American painter and illustrator, and an early member of the Byrdcliffe experiment which gave rise to the artists colony at Woodstock, New York. ... Frank Swift Chase (1886-1960) was an American Post-Impressionist landscape painter and a founder of the Woodstock Artists Association in Woodstock, New York, the art colony at Nantucket, Massachusetts, and the Sarasota School of Art in Florida. ... Painting, Smoking Eating 1972 Oil on Canvas Philip Guston (July 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980) was a notable painter and printmaker in the New York School, which included many of the Abstract Expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning. ... Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1st September 1893 - 14th May 1953) was an American painter born in Okayama, Japan. ... Frank Swift Chase (1886-1960) was an American Post-Impressionist landscape painter and a founder of the Woodstock Artists Association in Woodstock, New York, the art colony at Nantucket, Massachusetts, and the Sarasota School of Art in Florida. ... Andrew Michael Dasburg (May 4, 1887 – August 13, 1979) was an American modernist painter and one of Americas leading early exponents of cubism.[1] // He was born in 1887 in Paris. ... Henry Lee McFee (1886-1953) was a pioneer American cubist painter and a prominent member of the Woodstock artists colony. ... The Art Students League of New York is an art school founded in 1875. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ...

The Woodstock Guild, also founded by Byrdcliffe artists in 1939 is now the steward of the 350-acre Byrdcliffe Colony. It is a multicultural organization which sponsors exhibitions, classes, concerts, dance and theatre events and runs the oldest craft shop in Woodstock, the Fleur de Lis Gallery, which features over 60 artists. Byrdcliffe is on the National Register of Historic Places and is a haven for today's artists. Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... An acre is the name of a unit of area in a number of different systems, including Imperial units and United States customary units. ... Multiculturalism or cultural pluralism is a policy, ideal, or reality that emphasizes the unique characteristics of different cultures in the world, especially as they relate to one another in immigrant receiving nations. ... Exhibition is a word with several meanings. ... Classes can refer to: social class scientific classification class (object-oriented programming) a subject in school see also class. ... A concert comprises a performance, usually involving some degree of formality, and particularly a performance featuring music. ... For other uses, see Dance (disambiguation). ... Serge Sudeikins poster for the Bat Theatre (1922). ... For other uses, see Craft (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Fleur-de-lis (disambiguation). ...

Famous Inhabitants

The town has long been a mecca for artists, musicians, and writers, even before the music festival made the name "Woodstock" famous. The town has a separate "Artist's Cemetery". Film and art festivals attract big names, and hundreds of musicians have come to Woodstock to record. The list below contains the names of significant artists who actually lived (or still currently live) in the town.

Musicians

• Ed Sanders- Poet/Founder of Fugs band
• Daevid Allen - Soft Machine/Gong singer/poet
• John Ashton - producer/guitarist for The Psychedelic Furs
• The Band members: Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, and Robbie Robertson - the five shared a house together, where they recorded The Basement Tapes (with Bob Dylan) and Music from Big Pink. The house, dubbed "Big Pink" is in neighboring Saugerties, though Danko,Manuel,Hudson and Helm all eventually moved to Woodstock.
• Cyro Baptista - Brazilian-born percussionist
• Richard Bell - keyboardist
• David Bowie- songwriter, musician, fashion icon
• Beki Brindle Scala - lead guitarist, recording artist, Grace Pool (Warner Reprise), Windopane, Yank Rachell
• Paul Butterfield - blues musician
• Imani Coppola - singer/songwriter/musician (early 2000's)
• Kal David - blues musician
• Jack DeJohnette - jazz drummer
• Aïyb Dieng - drummer and percussionist
• Bob Dylan - singer/songwriter, in the late sixties. (He had his infamous motorcycle accident while living here in 1966.)
• Michael Esposito - lead guitarist with The Blues Magoos (Mercury Records 1960s)
• Jackson C. Frank - singer/songwriter
• John Hall - musician, co-founder of Orleans
• Bill Keith - banjo player/composer developed melodic or (Keith style) banjo picking.
• Steve Knight - keyboardist for Mountain; currently a member of the Woodstock Town Board
• Tony Levin - bassist
• Thelonious Monk - jazz musician
• Fred Neil - singer/songwriter
• Van Morrison - singer/songwriter
• David "Fathead" Newman - jazz musician
• John Platania - guitarist
• Bonnie Raitt - singer/songwriter
• Tom Rapp - singer /songwriter, leader of the band Pearls Before Swine
• Mick Ronson - guitarist
• Todd Rundgren - singer/songwriter
• Ralph Scala - Lead singer / Keyboardist with The Blues Magoos (Mercury Records 1960s)
• Robert Starer - pianist & composer
• David Peel - member of The Lower East Side Band
• Keith Strickland and Kate Pierson of the B-52s
• Gary Windo - saxophonist
• Pat Metheny - Grammy award winning guitarist
• Henry Cowell - composer
• George Bareré - flutist
• Peter Schikele - composer
• Eric Weisberg - banjo
• Warren Bernhart - piano, keyboards
• Nina Lugovoy - piano
• Charles Libove - violin
• Marc Black - singer song writer
• Bar Scott - singer song writer
• Fred Hand - guitar
• Betty McDonald - violin
• Donald McDonald - drummer
• Rob Leon - drummer
• Frank Luther - bassist

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The Basement Tapes are a series of recordings by North American folk-rockers Bob Dylan and The Band, recorded in mid-1967. ... Music From Big Pink is the 1968 debut album by folk-rock band The Band. ... Saugerties is a town in Ulster County, New York, USA. The population was 19,868 at the 2000 census. ... Cyro Baptista (born December 23, 1950) is a Brazilian musician, teacher, and recording artist specializing in percussion in the genres of jazz and world music. ... Richard Bell was a Canadian musician. ... David Bowie (IPA: []) (born David Robert Jones on 1947 January 8) is an English singer, songwriter, actor, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer. ... Paul Butterfield (December 17, 1942 – May 4, 1987) was an American blues harmonica player and singer, and one of the earliest white exponents of the Chicago-originated electric blues style. ... Knoxi polygua depro asing rement ming rounder modem. ... Kal David is a blues musician famous for his work as a guitarist, singer and songwriter with some of the worlds preeminent blues musicians as well as for his work in the early 1970s on Columbia Records. ... Jack DeJohnette (b. ... Aïyb Dieng is a Senegalese drummer and percussionist. ... This article is about the recording artist. ... Jackson C. Frank. ... For other people named John Hall, see John Hall. ... Orleans is a classic American Pop/Rock band best known for its hits Dance With Me (1975), Still the One (1976) and Love Takes Time (1979). ... Bill Keith (January 20, 1929 – 2004) began his artistic life as a painter, but moved into photography and visual poetry. ... The Keith style of playing the 5-string banjo emphasizes the melody of the song. ... Steve Knight (born 1935) is an American musician best known as the keyboardist for Mountain, a rock band of the early 1970s. ... Mountain is an American rock band, popular in the early 1970s. ... Tony Levin (born June 6, 1946, Boston, Massachusetts) is an influential American bass player. ... Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was a jazz pianist and composer. ... Fred Neil (March 16, 1936 – July 7, 2001) was an important American blues and folk singer and songwriter in the 1960s and early 1970s. ... George Ivan Morrison OBE (generally known as Van Morrison) (born August 31, 1945) is a singer-songwriter from Belfast, Northern Ireland. ... David Fathead Newman b. ... John Platania is a well-known session musician, guitar player, and record producer. ... Bonnie Raitt, (born November 8, 1949) is an American Blues-R&B singer, songwriter, and guitarist who was born in Burbank, California, the daughter of Broadway musical star John Raitt. ... Tom Rapp (born 1947) is an American composer and folk singer. ... Look up cast pearls before swine in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Mick Ronson (May 26, 1946 – April 29, 1993) born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire was an English guitarist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and producer. ... Todd Harry Rundgren (born June 22, 1948 in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, USA), is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. ... Robert Starer (1924–2001 ) was an Austrian composer born in Vienna. ... David Peel is a New York City-based musician who first achieved prominence in the late 1960s. ... Biography Keith Strickland (born October 26, 1953) is the guitarist and one of the founding members of the new wave band The B-52s. ... Kate Pierson in the R.E.M. music video Shiny Happy People Kate Pierson (born 27 April 1948, in Weehawken, New Jersey) is one of the lead singers of The B-52s. ... Gary Windo (born November 7, 1941 in Brighton; died July 25, 1992 in New York City) was a jazz tenor saxophonist. ... Patrick Bruce Metheny (born August 12, 1954 in Lees Summit, Missouri) is an American jazz guitarist and composer. ... Henry Cowell (March 11, 1897 - December 10, 1965) was an American composer, musical theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario. ... Peter Schickele – full name Johann Peter Schickele, but never used -- (b. ... Frederic Hand is a guitarist and composer who lives in the New York City area. ... Donald McDonald (born May 10, 1962) is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. ... Frank Luther (August 4, 1905 - November 16, 1980) was an American country music singer, songwriter and pianist. ...

Artists

• Isaac Abrams - painter, sculptor
• Alexander Archipenko - sculptor
• George Ault - painter
• Milton Avery - painter
• George Bellows - painter
• James Brooks - painter
• Edward Leigh Chase - painter
• Frank Swift Chase - painter
• Andrew Michael Dasburg - painter
• Richard Diebenkorn - painter
• Harvey Fite - sculptor
• Milton Glaser - graphic designer (creator of the ‘I Love New York’ logo)
• Philip Guston - painter
• Sam Henderson - cartoonist
• Eva Hesse- sculptor
• Fred Hunt - painter, maintains summer studio at Taleo Arts Center
• Doris Lee - painter
• Ronnie Landfield - painter
• Elliot Landy - photographer
• Lyn Ott - painter
• Anton Refregier - painter
• Roswita Szyszka - painter
• Marko Vukovic - painter
• Yehuda Ben Yehuda - painter/sculptor
• nancy Angeloch - painter
• Robert Angeloch - painter
• Erich Angeloch - painter
• Lenny Kislin - sculptor

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Writers

• Robert Duncan - beat poet
• Alf Evers - historian & author
• Paul Hoffman - author & TV Host
• Howard Koch - screenwriter who wrote 1938 radio drama The War of the Worlds and won Academy Award for Casablanca
• Sean Lahman - historian & sportswriter
• Henry Morton Robinson - novelist
• Ed Sanders - author & publisher
• Ruth Simpson - author and lesbian/feminist activist
• Robert Thurman - Buddhist scholar, father of actress Uma Thurman
• Gail Godwin - author
• Heywood Hale Broun Author TV commentator
• David Robison - author
• Shalom Auslander - author

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Actors

• Jennifer Connelly - actress, for several years during her childhood
• Ethan Hawke - actor
• Piper Laurie - actress
• Lee Marvin - actor
• Uma Thurman - actress, for several years during her childhood. Still seen frequently in Woodstock, to visit her parents including Robert Thurman.
• Liv Tyler - actress, daughter of Aerosmith singer/songwriter Steve Tyler; grew up in Woodstock in the home of Todd Rundgren.
• Chevy Chase-actor, born here.
• Dean Shambach - actor
• Michael Da Torre - actor

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Others

• John Burroughs, naturalist
• John Dewey, educator, a founder of the philosophical school of Pragmatism.
• Albert Grossman - manager/producer and founder of Bearsville Records. His Bearsville Recording Studio has attracted hundreds of well known musicians to record in Woodstock.
• Steven Hager - chief editor, High Times magazine
• Phil Jackson - basketball coach and former NBA player
• Philippe Petit- famous funambulist, best known for walking a tightrope between the World Trade Center twin towers.
• Edgar Villchur HiFi/Audio pioneer inventor of the acoustic suspension loudspeaker, pioneering work on the modern individually adaptable hearing aid. Founder of Acoustic Research speaker company.
• Michael Szyszka - Managing editor, Owner Bear Systems Publishing, aka Bear Systems

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Local Communities and Landmarks

• Artists Cemetery - A cemetery for Woodstock artists and luminaries on Rock City Road.
• Ashokan Reservoir - A New York City reservoir under which lie three lost towns.
• Bearsville - A hamlet at the junction of Routes 212 and 45, west of Woodstock village.
• Byrdcliffe - Site of the original art colony near the junction of Routes 212 and County Road 33, northwest of Woodstock village along Rock City Road.
• Cooper Lake - Kingston reservoir located south of Lake Hill and Shady.
• Daisy - A hamlet east of Woodstock village near the east town line. Currently the site of a municipal road works gravel dump/parking lot. Due southeast of Overlook Mountain, Daisy is the Woodstock hamlet with the most documented stone cairns, mounds and other possibly ancient sites within 10 minutes walking distance. Many of those are threatened by development.
• Church On The Mount (Woodstock) http://www.myspace.com/churchonthemount
• Echo Lake - A mountain lake within the Indian Head Wilderness of the Catskill Mountains.
• Lake Hill - A hamlet on CR 33.
• Meads (Woodstock) - A meadow north of Woodstock village, site of the Karma Triyana Dharmachakra Tibetan Buddhist monastery and entrance to the Devil's Path.
• Montoma - A hamlet south of Woodstock near the town line with the Town of Hurley.
• Mount Tobias - A mountain in the central part of the town.
• Ohayo Mountain - A mountain to the east, between the Ashokan Reservoir and Woodstock village
• Overlook Mountain - A mountain to the northeast, on the slope of which Woodstock is situated.
• Shady - A hamlet north of Byrdcliffe on Route 212.
• Willow - A hamlet in the northwest part of the town on Route 212.
• Wittenberg - A hamlet at the junction of Routes 40 and 45, southwest of Bearsville.
• Woodstock - The village of Woodstock and the principal center of local service for the town.
• Zena - A hamlet east of Woodstock village in the southeast part of the town.

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See also

• Art colony
• Byrdcliffe Colony

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External links

• Town of Woodstock, NY
• Bearsystems: A Guide to the Hudson Valley
• Lotus Fine Art Gallery
• Woodstock Artists Association
• Woodstock Guild/Byrdcliffe Art Colony
• The Colony Cafe
• Woodstock Library
• Woodstock Public Library Digital Collections
• Mower's Saturday Flea Market
• Woodstock Times
• American Art & Fine Handmade Craft Gallery, Woodstock, NY, New York, SweetHeart Gallery
• The Center for Photography at Woodstock
• Woodstock Film Festival

v • d • e Municipalities and communities of Ulster County, New York
County seat: Kingston
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Towns	Denning | Esopus | Gardiner | Hardenburgh | Hurley | Kingston | Lloyd | Marbletown | Marlborough | New Paltz | Olive | Plattekill | Rochester | Rosendale | Saugerties | Shandaken | Shawangunk | Ulster | Wawarsing | Woodstock Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The definitions of the political subdivisions of the state of New York differ from those in certain other countries or even various other U.S. states, leading to misunderstandings regarding the governmental nature of an area. ... Denning is a town located in Ulster County, New York. ... Esopus is a town located in Ulster County, New York. ... Gardiner is a town located in Ulster County, New York. ... Hardenburgh is a town located in Ulster County, New York. ... Hurley is a town located in Ulster County, New York. ... Kingston is a town located in Ulster County, New York. ... Lloyd is a town located in Ulster County, New York. ... Marbletown is a town located in Ulster County, New York. ... Marlborough is a town located in Ulster County, New York. ... New Paltz is a town in Ulster County, New York, USA. The population was 12,830 at the 2000 census. ... Olive is a town located in Ulster County, New York. ... Plattekill is a town located in Ulster County, New York. ... Rochester is a town located in Ulster County, New York, United States. ... Rosendale is a town located in Ulster County, New York. ... Saugerties is a town in Ulster County, New York, USA. The population was 19,868 at the 2000 census. ... Shandaken is a town located in Ulster County, New York, U.S.. USA. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 3,235. ... Shawangunk is a town in Ulster County, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 12,022. ... Ulster is a town located in Ulster County, New York. ... Wawarsing is a town located in Ulster County, New York. ...
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Communities and CDPs	Accord | Bearsville | Big Indian | Boiceville | Centerville | Chichester | Clintondale | Cottekill | Cragsmoor | East Kingston | Gardiner | Glasco | High Falls | Highland | Highmount | Hillside | Hurley | Kerhonkson | Lake Katrine | Lincoln Park | Malden | Marlboro | Milton | Mount Pleasant | Mount Tremper | Napanoch | Olivebridge | Oliverea | Phoenicia | Pine Hill | Port Ewen | Rifton | Rosendale Village | Saugerties South | Seager | Shady | Shokan | Spring Glen | Stone Ridge | Sundown | Tillson | Veteran | Walker Valley | Wallkill | West Hurley | West Park | West Shokan | Willow | Woodstock | Zena It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with unincorporated. ... The definitions of the political subdivisions of the state of New York differ from those in certain other countries or even various other U.S. states, leading to misunderstandings regarding the governmental nature of an area. ... Accord is a census-designated place located in Ulster County, New York. ... The hamlet of Chichester, New York, formerly referred to as Chichesterville, is one of the the northernmost communities in the town of Shandaken, New York, being right next to the borderline between Ulster County and Greene County. ... Clintondale is a census-designated place located in Ulster County, New York. ... Cottekill is an unincorporated hamlet in the town of Rosendale, county of Ulster. ... Cragsmoor is a census-designated place located in Ulster County, New York. ... East Kingston is a census-designated place located in Ulster County, New York. ... Gardiner is a census-designated place located in Ulster County, New York. ... Glasco is a census-designated place located in Ulster County, New York. ... High Falls is a census-designated place located in Ulster County, New York. ... Highland is a census-designated place located in Ulster County, New York. ... Shandaken is a town in Ulster County, New York, United States. ... Hillside is a census-designated place located in Ulster County, New York. ... Hurley is a census-designated place located in Ulster County, New York. ... Kerhonkson is a census-designated place located in Ulster County, New York. ... Lake Katrine is a census-designated place located in Ulster County, New York. ... Lincoln Park is a census-designated place located in Ulster County, New York. ... Malden is a census-designated place located in Ulster County, New York. ... Marlboro is a census-designated place located in Ulster County, New York. ... Milton is a census-designated place located in Ulster County, New York. ... Napanoch is a census-designated place located in Ulster County, New York. ... Olivebridge, New York is a community in Ulster County, New York, U.S.A. within Catskill State Park and the Catskill Mountains. ... Phoenicia is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Ulster County, New York, USA. The population was 381 at the 2000 census. ... Pine Hill is a census-designated place located in Ulster County, New York. ... Port Ewen is a census-designated place located in Ulster County, New York. ... Rifton is a census-designated place located in Ulster County, New York. ... Rosendale Village is a census-designated place located in Ulster County, New York. ... Saugerties South is a census-designated place located in Ulster County, New York. ... Seager, New York is a former village in Ulster County, New York, U.S.A. within Catskill State Park and the Catskill Mountains. ... Shady is a hamlet in Ulster County, New York, United States. ... Shokan is a census-designated place located in the Town of Olive in Ulster County, within the Catskill Park. ... Mamakating is a town in Sullivan County, New York, United States. ... Stone Ridge is a census-designated place located in Ulster County, New York. ... Tillson is a census-designated place located in Ulster County, New York. ... Walker Valley is a census-designated place located in the western half of the Town of Shawangunk in Ulster County, New York, generally thought of as coterminous with the 12588 ZIP Code. ... The Wallkill Public Library Wallkill is a hamlet (and census-designated place), generally identified as coterminous with ZIP code 12589, telephone exchange 895 in the 845 area code and most of the Wallkill Central School District located mostly in the eastern half of the Town of Shawangunk, Ulster County, New... West Hurley is a census-designated place located in Ulster County, New York. ... West Park, New York is a town on the west side of the Hudson River, in Ulster County, New York. ... Woodstock is a hamlet (and census-designated place) located in Ulster County, New York. ... Zena is a census-designated place located in Ulster County, New York. ...