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Historical marker location:

Stuyvesant, New York

( Marker is on 9J, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1932

1664.

The Woodstock Music Festival, which is considered a seminal moment in American cultural history, did not actually take place in the town of Woodstock, New York. The festival was held on a dairy farm in nearby Bethel, New York, about 60 miles south of Woodstock.