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. It is located along New York State Route 212, within Catskill State Park and just to the west of the hamlet of Woodstock. Bearsville was named not for the numerous local black bears, but for German peddler and storekeeper Christian Baehr, who built a store on the Sawkill Creek in 1839. Bearsville was the birth site of Grover Cleveland. Places of interest in Bearsville, or named for it, include Bearsville Records and

Bearsville Studios Bearsville Sound Studio was an independent residential recording studio founded by Albert Grossman in the Bearsville, New York, Bearsville section of Woodstock, New York. From the late 1960s through the early 2000s, the studios were the site of n ...

, and The Bearsville Theater and restaurant complex. The highest known temperature in Bearsville was , which occurred in 1995. The lowest temperature was , recorded in 1994.

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