Called by some “the most famous small town in the world,” throughout its history Woodstock has drawn both residents and visitors attracted by its natural beauty, its artistic and cultural liveliness, and its generous sense of community. This appeal has survived the many changes that each generation has experienced. Protecting the unique qualities and character of the town, while promoting the changes that help create a vibrant future, is the task to be embraced by each new generation.

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The first non-indigenous settler arrived around 1770, and the town of Woodstock was established in 1787.

Woodstock played host to numerous Hudson River School painters during the late 1800s. The Arts and Crafts Movement came to Woodstock in 1902, with the arrival of Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, Bolton Brown, and Hervey White who formed who formed the Byrdcliffe Colony in 1903. The  Byrdcliffe art colony is one of the nation's oldest Arts & Crafts colonies. 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. From 1915 through 1931, Hervey White's Maverick Art Colony held the Maverick Festivals, "in which hundreds of free spirits gathered each summer for music, art, theater and drunken orgies in the woods."

Woodstock is famous for lending its name to the Woodstock Festival. The 1969 Woodstock Festival was actually held at Max Yasgur's dairy farm almost 60 miles away in Bethel in Sullivan County.

Woodstock is a town in Ulster County, New York, United States, in the northern part of the county, northwest of Kingston. It lies within the borders of the Catskill Park. The northern town line borders Greene County. The town has a total area of 67.8 square miles, of which 67.3 square miles is land and 0.54 square miles, or 0.80%, is water. The population was 6,287 in the 2020 census, higher than in the 2010 census.