New Paltz Wedding

New Paltz is a town in Ulster County, New York, USA. The population was 12,830 at the 2000 census. The name of the town is derived from Palz the German dialect name of the Rhenish Palatinate, now a region of Germany called "Pfalz".

The Town of New Paltz contains a village also with the name New Paltz. The town is located in the northern part of the county and is south of Kingston, New York.

The Mohonk Preserve and Mohonk Mountain House resort hotel are located in the western part of New Paltz.

New Paltz was founded in 1678 by French Huguenots who had taken refuge in Mannheim, Germany, for a few years before coming to America. Mannheim was, at that time, capital of the area called the Rhenish Palatinate or, in German, the Rhein Pfalz.

The people of Mannheim leave out the "f" in the name Pfalz, pronouncing it "Paltz." Records of the New Paltz Reformed Church, which was formed in 1683, show the name of the settlement was first expressed not in German, nor in English, but in French: Nouveau Palatinat