Woodstock (Vermont)

Windsor County

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Woodstock is a town in Windsor County, the State of Vermont in the United States with 3,048 inhabitants ( according to the census of 2010). It is the administrative center ( Shire Town) of the county. The three main population centers of the community, Woodstock Village, South Woodstock and Taftsville, are as villages politically and administratively by the Town dependent. Woodstock is located east of the main ridge in the Green Mountains and is the Ottauquechee River, a tributary of the Connecticut River, flowing through it.

The area was proclaimed on 10 June 1761 by Governor Benning Wentworth and settled about 1768. Well served by the riverside location, hydropower, created next to the farms on the banks of Ottauquechee first several mills, and later factories that exported their products in 1878 with the then completed Woodstock Railway over White River Junction in the surrounding states. The railway line was closed due to the economic decline in 1929 but unprofitable and 1933. Woodstock now lives primarily from tourism; many houses are sold or rented out as second homes to residents of New York and the cities of the east coast.

In Woodstock an Episcopalian, a Unitarian, a Roman Catholic and a Jewish community are located. All types of school through high school are included in the Town, as well as a library and Historical Society.

On the northern outskirts of the village there is also a museum courtyard, the Billings Farm, which produced in the traditional manner, and children and adults, demonstrations of old agricultural techniques offers. The house in which the poet George Perkins Marsh grew up, is also preserved and is in the list of National Historic Landmarks in Vermont as George Perkins Marsh Boyhood Home. Three Covered Bridges span the Ottauquechee River.

Nearby Cities

All information bee-line distances.

  • North: Pomfret, 8.0 km
  • North East Hartford, 14.0 km
  • East: White River Junction, 16.0 km
  • Southeast: Hartland, 13.5 km
  • South: West Windsor, 15.5 km
  • Southwest: Plymouth, 19.0 km
  • West: Rutland City, 37.0 kilometers
  • Northwest: Barnard, 14.0 km

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Sylvester Churchill (1783 - 1862), journalist and officer in the U.S. Army
  • George Perkins Marsh (1801 - 1888), politician and writer
  • Keegan Bradley ( born 1986 ), professional golfer
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