Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1893 on and old-book passages.
The Hudson post office opened in 1889, the earliest record of the town by name.
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Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Hudson. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Hudson.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Hudson yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Hudson is a census-designated place (CDP) in Plains Township, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,443 at the 2010 census.
Its first post office opened in 1889. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 1,443 in 2010, 1,436 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Hudson, cut from the printed page as they were published.
continues to Stroudsburg, where it strikes the New York and the Susquehanna & Western railroad, thus making a most important outlet from Wilkes Barre to tidewater. The Record of a recent date (October) announces that the Delaware & Hudson railroad has entered into a tiaffic arrangement with this railroad, and says that " near the Yatesville depot, at the Delaware & Hudson crossing, a connection is being constructed at an enormous expense, on account of the heavy grade. A satisfactory arrangement will give the Delaware & Hudson through trains to New York over the shortest route yet surveyed from this region." This new line is therefore
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with his mother, brothers and sisters, emigrated to America, sailing from Glasgow April 27, 1843, on a sailing vessel called the " Superb," which made the passage to New York in twenty-three days. After landing, they took passage by steamboat up the Hudson river to Rondout; thence to Honesdale by canal boat on the Delaware <fe Hudson Canal; and from Honesdale by coal cars, on the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company's Railroad, to Carbondale (this being the royal route for emigrants from New York to Cai-bondale, at that time), May 31, 1843. After coming to this country our subject commenced mining coal, and was engaged in driving the Plane
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The surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown in October, 1781, virtually put an end to the war between England and the United States, and during the Spring and Summer of 1782 the main part of the American army lay along the Hudson River from Peekskill to New burg (where Washington had his headquarters), watching Sir Guy Carleton and his British forces still in the occupancy of the city of New York and its vicinity. Early in May, 1782, while his regiment was stationed at "Camp Highlands." near West Point, Colonel Butler paid a hasty visit to his family at Wilkes-Barre. He returned to camp in time to take part in the celebration by the army in the Highlands of the birth of the Dauphin of France. By General Washington's orders the officers repaired in the afternoon of May 31st to West Point, where the
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William Johnson spent the Winter of 1737-'38 with his aunt in New York, but as soon as na\'igation was opened in the Hudson River in the Spring of 17.38 he sailed with a sloop-load of stores and implements and several mechanics for Albany. Thence the party journej'ed overland with their material to a point near the mouth of Schoharie Creek, where, on Sir Peter Warren's land, they founded a settlement which became known as "Warrensburg" and as "Warrensbush." Here William Johnson passed five years. In 1741, however, he purchased a tract of land lying north of the Mohawk River and comprising several thousand acres— upon a portion of which part of the present city of Amsterdam stands. He at once began building upon this tract a substantial stone house (still standing, about one mile west of
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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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The Hudson post office opened in 1889, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
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