Riverside Cemetery

Historical marker location:

Long Eddy, New York

( Marker is on Cemetery Road east of New York State Route 97, on the right when traveling east.)

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.