Sullivan County tourism began in Bethel in the 1840s when the White Lake House and White Lake Mansion House were built for gentile guests. By the 1920s, more than 50 Jewish hotels, including New Empire, Kenmore, and Woodlawn Villa, dotted White Lake and Kauneconga Lake, while the Fur Workers Resorts, an interracial hotel, offered cultural and progressive programs. In 1949, African American musician and political activist Paul Robeson was invited to perform there weeks before his infamous concert-turned-riot in Peekskill, N.Y., and the resort later became Camp Hi-Li., a Jewish summer camp. Bethel was also home to Forestview Lodge, which catered to the African American community, and in the 1950s it transitioned to a destination of more than 50 bungalow colonies such as Dubin's Lapidus Cottages, Karnofsky's, Sunny Lane, and Zanes. From August 15-18, 1969, 500,000 people gathered for the Woodstock Music and Art Fair on Jewish dairy farmer Max Yasgur's farm, and the Kenmore Hotel hosted a production center creating silk-screened signage for Woodstock; the festival remains a symbol of the counterculture movement of the 1960s. From the 1920s through the early 1970s, the Borscht Belt was the preeminent summer resort destination for hundreds of thousands of predominantly East Coast American Jews after exclusion from existing establishments in the 1920s drove Jewish entrepreneurs to create more than 500 resorts, 50,000 bungalows, and 1,000 rooming houses in Sullivan County and parts of Ulster County. It provided a sense of community for working and vacationing Jews, strongly influenced American entertainment, music, and sports, and began a gradual decline around 1960 because of suburbia's growth, inexpensive airfare, and generational changes.