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Encyclopedia > Woodstock (town), New York

Woodstock is a town in Ulster County, New York, United States. The population was 6,241 at the 2000 census. Ronda, Spain Main street in Bastrop, Texas, a small town A town is a community of people ranging from a few hundred to several thousands, although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan areas. ... Ulster County is a county located in the state of New York, USA. It sits in the states beautiful Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley. ... NY redirects here. ...


The Town of Woodstock is in the northern part of the county. Woodstock is northwest of Kingston, New York and lies within the borders of Catskill Park. Kingston is a city in Ulster County, New York, United States. ... The Catskill State Park, also called Catskill Park, is in the Catskill Mountains in New York in the United States. ...

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History

The first 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. ... The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was an event held at Max Yasgurs 600 acre (2. ... E. Charlton Fortune (1885-1969} was a famous California artist who flourished on the Monterey Peninsula of California within the style of Impressionism. ...


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. 1870 US Census for New York City A census is the process of obtaining information about every member of a population (not necessarily a human population). ... 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. For the record label, see Marriage Records. ...


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

The town is famous for lending its name to the Woodstock Festival, actually held many miles away in Bethel, New York in Sullivan County. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was an event held at Max Yasgurs 600 acre (2. ... Bethel // The first settlers arrived around 1795 near the present communities of Bethel and White Lake. ... Sullivan County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. ...


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. ... An art colony is a place where artists live and work, interacting with one another, often creating a distinctive style. ... welcome:: This is an article about items in a room. ... Hot metal work from a blacksmith In chemistry, a metal (Greek: Metallon) is an element that readily loses electrons to form positive ions (cations) and has metallic bonds between metal atoms. ... Ceramics can refer to: Ceramic, a type of material Ceramics (art), a fine art. ... Tweed loom, Harris, 2004 Woven sheet Weaving is an ancient textile art and craft that involves placing two sets of threads or yarn made of fiber called the warp and weft of the loom and turning them into cloth. ... For building painting, see painter and decorator. ... 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. ... A festival is an event, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some unique aspect of that community. ... Composers are people who write music. ... For 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 a branch of physics and is the study of sound (mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids). ... A typical plaque showing entry on the National Register of Historic Places. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... 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 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. It has been suggested that Organizing be merged into this article or section. ... Milton Avery (1885-1965) was a United States painter whose works specialize in American Modernism. ... 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. ... Philip Guston ([Montreal, Canada [July 27]], 1913 - [Woodstock, N.Y.[June 7]], 1980) was one of the most important painters of the New York School, which also numbered 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. ... 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). ... 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. ... Dance (from French danser, perhaps from Frankish) generally refers to movement used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting. ... Serge Sudeikins poster for the Bat Theatre (1922). ... A craft is a skill, especially involving practical arts. ... The fleur-de-lis (or fleur-de-lys; plural: fleurs-de-lis) is a stylised design of an iris flower which is used both decoratively and symbolically. ... Haven can mean: A harbor A sanctuary // Companies Pizza Haven, an Australian pizza chain Haven & British Holidays, a company which runs a number of holiday parks in the United Kingdom and Europe Amoco Haven- an oil tanker which sank in 1991 Entertainment Haven (TNG episode), an episode of Star Trek...


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

This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... John Ashton born 22 February 1948 in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA graduated from the University of Southern California School of Theatre and became an actor. ... For other uses, see Band. ... Richard Clare Rick Danko (December 29, 1942-December 10, 1999) was a Canadian musician and singer, probably best known as a member of The Band. ... Mark Levon Helm (born May 26, 1940) is an American rock musician most famous as the drummer for the rock group The Band. ... {{Infobox musical artist |Name = Garth Hudson |Img = |Img_capt = |Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist |Birth_name = Eric Garth Hudson |Alias = |Born = August 2, 1937 Windsor, Ontario |Died = |Origin = |Instrument = Organ, piano, keyboards, accordion, saxophone, synthesizer, Melodica Slide Trumpet, [[ |Genre = Rock and roll, rock, pop, Jazz, R&B, country, folk |Occupation = Solo artist, Session musician |Years_active... Richard Manuel (April 3, 1943 – March 4, 1986) was a Canadian pianist, keyboardist, drummer, singer and songwriter best known for his membership in The Band. ... Jaime Robert Robertson (born July 5, 1943 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a songwriter, guitarist and singer, best known for his membership in The Band. ... 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. ... Born December 23, 1950 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Cyro Baptista arrived in the U.S. in 1980 with a scholarship to the Woodstock-based Creative Music Studio, and has since emerged as one of the premier percussionists in the country. ... Richard Bell was a Canadian musician. ... David Bowie (IPA: []) (born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) 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 Caucasian exponents of the Chicago-originated electric blues style. ... 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. ... Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. ... New Paltz is a town in Ulster County, New York, USA. The population was 12,830 at the 2000 census. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... 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. ... 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. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 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. ...

Artists

Alexander Porfiryevich Archipenko (1887 - 1964) was a U.S. (Russian-born) sculptor. ... George Ault (1891 – 1948) was an American painter. ... Milton Avery (1885-1965) was a United States painter whose works specialize in American Modernism. ... 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. ... James Brooks (October 18, 1906 – March 9, 1992) was an American muralist and abstract painter. ... 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. ... Richard Clifford Diebenkorn, Jr. ... Harvey Fite (1903-1976) was a pioneering American sculptor, painter and earth artist best known for his monumental land sculpture Opus 40. ... Milton Glaser, 2003 I Love New York campaign by Milton Glaser. ... I Love New York logo, by Milton Glaser. ... Philip Guston ([Montreal, Canada [July 27]], 1913 - [Woodstock, N.Y.[June 7]], 1980) was one of the most important painters of the New York School, which also numbered many of the Abstract Expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning. ... Sam Henderson (born in 1969 in Brooklyn, New York, United States) is an American independent cartoonist, writer and expert on American comedy history. ... Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 - May 29, 1970), was a German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. ... Doris Emrick Lee (1905 - 1983) was an American folk artist who was known for her painting and printmaking. ... Ronnie Landfield (born January 9, 1947 in The Bronx, New York) is an American abstract painter. ... Landys portrait of The Band Elliot Landy (born in 1942) is a photographer best known for his iconic photographs of rock musicians. ... Lyn Ott in Woodstock, 1964 Lynfield George Ott (April 25. ... Anton Refregier (March 20, 1905 - October 10, 1979) was a Russian immigrant painter in the United States. ...

Writers

Robert Duncan (January 7, 1919 – February 3, 1988), was an American poet associated with the Black Mountain poets and the beat generation. ... Alf Evers (February 2, 1905-December 29, 2004), was an American historian who lived in Ulster County, New York for much of his life and wrote lengthy, definitive histories of the Catskills and Woodstock, serving the latter as town historian. ... Paul Hoffman has been publisher of Encyclopædia Britannica since June 1997. ... Howard Koch (December 2, 1902 - August 17, 1995) was an American screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s. ... The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. ... Casablanca is an Oscar-winning 1942 romance film set during World War II in the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca. ... Sean Lahman (June 9, 1968—) is a sports historian, writer, statistician, and archivist. ... Henry Morton Robinson (born September 7, 1898–died January 13, 1961) was an American novelist, best known for his 1950 novel The Cardinal, which was adapted to an Academy Award nominated film in 1963. ... Ed Sanders born August 17, 1939 in Kansas City,Missouri is a poet, singer, social activist, environmentalist, novelist and publisher. ... Ruth Simpson is a Gay rights activist from Cleveland, OH who served as President of Daughters of Bilitis New York Chapter in the 1970s. ... A lesbian is a woman who is romantically and sexually attracted only to other women. ... Feminism is a social theory and political movement primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Actors

Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12, 1970) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress and former child model. ... Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, writer and film director. ... Piper Laurie (born January 22, 1932) is an American actress. ... Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924 – August 29, 1987) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, the lead section of this article may need to be expanded. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Liv Tyler (born Liv Rundgren, on July 1, 1977 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, New York[1]) is an American actress most famous for her roles of Grace Stamper in Armageddon and Arwen in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. ... This article is about the band Aerosmith. ... Steven Victor Tallarico (born March 26, 1948 in Yonkers, New York), better known as Steven Tyler, is the singer and co-songwriter in the band Aerosmith, formed in Boston, Massachusetts in the early 1970s. ...

Others

Albert Bernard Grossman (May 21, 1926 -- January 25, 1986) is best known as the manager of Bob Dylan. ... Bearsville Records was started in 1970 by Bob Dylans manager, Albert Grossman. ... Steven Hager, a marihuana activist, was born May 25, 1951 in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, the son of Lowell P. Hager and Francis Erea Hager. ... A managing editor is a senior member of a publications management team. ... Cover image of High Times premiere issue, Summer 1974. ... Philip Douglas Phil Jackson (born September 17, 1945 in Deer Lodge, Montana) is the current coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, an American professional basketball team. ... Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by throwing a ball through a 10-foot high hoop (the basket) under organized rules. ... In sports, a coach or manager is an individual involved in the direction and instruction of the on-field operations of an athletic team or of individual athletes. ... The National Basketball Association of the United States and Canada, commonly known as the NBA, is the premier professional basketball league in North America. ... Petit at WTC, 1974 Philippe Petit (born August 13, 1949) is a French high wire artist who gained fame for his illegal walk between the former Twin Towers in New York City on August 7, 1974. ... ... Tightrope walking is a spectacle activity usually performed for the amusement of an audience. ... “WTC” redirects here. ... John Burroughs (April 3, 1837-March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and essayist important in the evolution of the U.S. conservation movement. ... John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thoughts and ideas have been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. ... Pragmatism is a philosophic school that originated in the late nineteenth century with Charles Sanders Peirce, who first stated the pragmatic maxim. ...

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 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 Route 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.

The Ashokan Reservoir is a reservoir in Ulster County, New York, USA. The reservoir is in the eastern end of the Catskill State Park, and is one of several reservoirs created to provide the City of New York with water. ... ... Junction Location NY-28 Mt. ... An art colony is a place where artists live and work, interacting with one another, often creating a distinctive style. ... Junction Location NY-5 NY-31 Legend New York State Routes Current - Deleted New York State Route 33 is a New York State highway that travels from Buffalo, New York to Rochester, New York. ... Cooper Lake refers to: Cooper Lake (New York), USA Cooper Lake (Texas), USA Cooper Lake State Park, Texas, USA Category: ... Kingston is a city in Ulster County, New York, United States. ... Look up daisy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Cairns is a regional city located in far north Queensland, Australia. ... mounds may refer to: Mounds, Illinois Mounds, Oklahoma Tumulus (a mound or barrow) Mounds as mythical creatures A candy bar produced by Hersheys This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Echo Lake may refer to: Canada Echo Lake (Ontario), a lake in the Muskoka region of Ontario, Canada Echo Lake Provincial Park, in British Columbia United States Echo Lake, California, both a lake and a town where the lake is located Echo Lake, a lake in the Rocky Mountains of... Junction Location NY-5 NY-31 Legend New York State Routes Current - Deleted New York State Route 33 is a New York State highway that travels from Buffalo, New York to Rochester, New York. ... Karma Triyana Dharmachakra is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Woodstock, NY, USA, which serves as the North American seat of His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu lineage. ... A replica of an ancient statue found among the ruins of a temple at Sarnath Buddhism is a philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, a prince of the Shakyas, whose lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 486 BCE. It had subsequently been accepted by... Monastery of St. ... The Devils Path is the name of a mountain range and hiking trail in the Greene County portion of New Yorks Catskill Mountains. ... Hurley is a town located in Ulster County, New York. ... Shady is a hamlet in Ulster County, New York, United States. ... New York State Route 40 is a state route in New York state, running from NY 7 at Troy north to NY 22 at Granville. ... New York State Route 45 is a north-south highway in Central Rockland 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. ...

See also

An art colony is a place where artists live and work, interacting with one another, often creating a distinctive style. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

External links

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