Incorporated: 1763
Population: 1,164
County Name: Grafton
(county map)
Town Contact:
Town of Woodstock
PO Box 156
North Woodstock, NH 03262

Phone: 603-745-8752
Fax: 603-745-2393
Website: woodstocknh.org

Origin:
First granted in 1763, Governor Benning Wentworth named the town Peeling after an English town. Many of the first colonists were originally from Lebanon, Connecticut. In 1771, Governor John Wentworth gave it the name Fairfield, after Fairfield, Connecticut. The town was renamed Woodstock in 1840, for a historic palace in Woodstock, England.

More about Woodstock:
Located in New Hampshire's White Mountains in the town of North Woodstock, Lost River Reservation (as it is most properly known) is set in Kinsman Notch. One of the area's famous passes, Kinsman Notch lies between Mt. Moosilauke and Mt. Kinsman, about 2000 feet above sea level.

Lost River is so-named because the brook draining the southern part of Kinsman Notch disappears below the surface in the narrow, steep-walled glacial Gorge. The Gorge is partially filled with immense blocks of granite, through the spaces of which the brook cascades along its subterranean course until it eventually emerges and joins the Pemigewasset River which flows southward from Franconia Notch.

Also in North Woodstock is the Beaver Brook Cascades Waterfall. An impressive site, with falls slowly descending around 1000 feet along the way.