View of Zena Mill Pond from above the triple waterfall.

Early settlers were from Woodstock in Oxfordshire, England; the word "Woodstoc" is from the Saxon, meaning, "A Clearing in the Woods".

The geology of Woodstock is evident in the face of the high rock wall on the far side of the swimming pond, in this photo taken of the pond by E.J. Gold in mid-summer of 1953.

Any student of geography will tell you that the hard stone of the Catskill Mountains did not crumple or fold during the four past ice ages, and when the softer shale was washed away in the floods during the warmer cycles, the blue flagstone terraces which dominate this "blue mountains" area, were created, filled by soft dirt produced by the grinding glaciers as they advanced, left there by the ice as it retreated in the global warming which we now experience as what we today call "Normal Weather".

One notable example of the glaciers' passing is "Slide Mountain", composed almost entirely of shale, which slips out from under even the most careful steepface barehand climber.