Woodstock NY Real Estate
Woodstock NY Real Estate includes Hamlets of Bearsville, Daisy, Echo Lake, Montoma, Shady, Willow, Wittenberg, Woodstock and Zena. It also includes the Town of Woodstock which is bordered on the north by Greene County on the east by the Towns of Saugerties, Ulster and Kingston, to the south by the Town of Hurley and Olive, to the west by the Town of Shandaken. The Arts and Crafts Movement was established with the arrival of Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, Bolton Brown and Hervey White, who formed the Byrdcliffe Colony in 1902. Situated on 300 wooded acres with 30 buildings it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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- Saugerties Woodstock 3BR3BA Colonial Private Setting. This is a great quiet location with access to both Saugerties and Woodstock. The upscale home has a separate Kitchen and Dining room, 3 BR 3BA, huge closets, lots of storage, and a unfinished room above the attached garage all on 2.6 Acres.
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- MAGNIFICENT SETTING HIGH IN THE MOUNTAINS WITH A UNIQUE HOME FEATURING OLD WORLD CRAFTSMANSHIP STONE WORK EXTENSIVE STONE WALLS 270 VIEWS OF CATSKILL MTNS. INCREDIBLE SPRING FED POND SURROUNDED BY BOULDERS 48X42 BARN/GARAGE GUEST HOUSE.
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Woodstock NY Real Estate
The first non-indigenous settler arrived around 1770. Woodstock was officially created as a township in 1787. Settlers earlier in the century had moved up the streams and populated that arable land in the mountains. By the time of the American Revolution, there were farms and settlements in Woodstock, Lewis Hollow, Lake Hill, Mount Pleasant, Phoenicia, Pine Hill, to the north at Windham and to the west along both branches of the Delaware River.
Later, Woodstock contributed some of its territory to form the towns of Middletown (1789), Windham (1798), Shandaken (1804), and Olive (1853).
By 1787, the population in the mountains and beyond had grown sufficient to warrant the creation of a new town. It was named Woodstock, and Elias Hasbrouck was the first Town Supervisor. The center of the town was at the Lake Hill cross roads and the township stretched from the Kingston, Hurley, Saugerties lines at the foot of the mountains to the west branch of the Delaware River on the west, and to Windham in the north. In 1797, four new towns and a new county, Greene, were created from the northern part of Woodstock because of the population growth. These were : Towns of Middletown (1789), Windham (1798), Shandaken (1804), and Olive (1853). With this last separation, Woodstock took on its present shape, with the exception of Zena, which was added in 1883. The Woodstock Elgin Creamery was established in 1898 at a site now located on the corner of Maple Lane and Deanies Alley.
Many industries existed in Woodstock, among them the glass factory in Bristol (now Shady) built in 1809. In the 1830’s the demand for leather for shoes and many industrial uses (belts for increasingly large mills) reached the point where it was profitable to ship hides from California and South America and tan them in the U.S. Tanning required a plentiful water supply and tannic acid, which could be obtained from hemlock bark. The Catskill Mountains, with many streams and a vast hemlock forest were a natural place to locate the industry, and tanneries sprang up all through the Catskills.
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According to the U. S. Census for 2010, the town has a total area of 67.9 square miles and a population of 5,884 people, 94% white. The median income for a household is $49,217and the per capita income for the town is $32,133.
Woodstock played host to numerous Hudson River School painters during the late 1800s and the Arts and Crafts Movement in the early part of the 20th century with the arrival of Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, Bolton Brown and Hervey White, who formed the Byrdcliffe Colony in 1902. In 1906, L. Birge Harrison and others founded the Summer School of the Art Students League of New York in the area, primarily for landscape painting. Ever since, Woodstock has been considered an active artists colony.
A series of Woodstock Sound-Outs were were staged at Pan Copeland’s Farm just over the town line in Saugerties from 1967 to 1970 featuring artists such as Richie Havens, Paul Butterfield and Van Morrison. The Sound-Outs inspired the original Woodstock Festival’s organizers to plan their concert at the Winston Farm in Saugerties; however, the town turned down their permit, and the “Woodstock” Festival was actually held almost 60 miles (97 km) away at Max Yasgur’s Farm in the town of Bethel. Today, Woodstock remains host to music, theater, art, specialty shops and galleries, for both locals and tourists.
Woodstock is also home to the Karma Triyana Dharmachakra Buddhist monastery, situated at the top of Mead’s Mountain Road.
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