Union Chapel

Historical marker location:

Shelter Island, New York

( Marker is on Wesley Avenue, 0.4 miles Waverly Avenue, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1975

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.