Woodstock is a town in and the shire town (county seat) of Windsor County, Vermont, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 3,232. It includes the villages of Woodstock, South Woodstock and Taftsville. Popular with tourists, Woodstock is noted for its scenic beauty and pristine historic architecture.
Chartered by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth on July 10, 1761, the town was a New Hampshire grant to David Page and...
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Woodstock is a town in and the shire town (county seat) of Windsor County, Vermont, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 3,232. It includes the villages of Woodstock, South Woodstock and Taftsville. Popular with tourists, Woodstock is noted for its scenic beauty and pristine historic architecture.
Chartered by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth on July 10, 1761, the town was a New Hampshire grant to David Page and 61 others. Wentworth named it after Woodstock in Oxfordshire, England -- homage to both Blenheim Palace and its owner, George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough. The town was first settled in 1768 by James Sanderson and his family. In 1776, Major Joab Hoisington built a gristmill, followed by a sawmill, on the south branch of the Ottauquechee River.
Although the Revolution slowed settlement, Woodstock developed rapidly once the war ended in 1783. The Vermont General Assembly met here in 1807 before moving the next year to the new capital at...
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