Port Watson

Historical marker location:

Cortland, New York

( Marker is on Port Watson Street (U.S. 11), on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1988

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.