Plaine Hill
This marker preserves the name Plaine Hill, once used for the elevated village center now known as Woodstock Hill. Its inscription describes an established inland community with numerous buildings, substantial homes, productive land, orchards, and livestock. The words offer a glimpse of how earlier observers viewed Woodstock as a prosperous rural village shaped by agriculture and the surrounding countryside.
Plaine Hill became the center of the community’s religious, educational, and civic life. Its common, church, academy, burying ground, public buildings, and neighboring homes developed along the ridge while farms extended across the surrounding landscape.
The Woodstock Tercentenary Committee placed the marker in 1986 to commemorate the three-hundredth anniversary of the town’s settlement. It preserves more than an earlier placename. It records how the community once described itself and draws attention to the rural landscape and historic village that remain visible today.
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Quasset School
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