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Hudson New York company history timeline

1807

Practical steam navigation was begun by inventor and engineer Robert Fulton in 1807, and the river quickly became a major commercial route.

1809

Their residences of this period were built in the federal style (as exemplified by the 1809 Robert Jenkins House, now the DAR building, at 113 Warren Street), and emphasized symmetry in two-story buildings built of brick or clapboard, with side or center halls.

1819

The last whaling ship had sailed from Hudson in 1819.

1820

In 1820, Hudson was the fourth largest human settlement in New York State.

1840

The City of Hudson was chartered in 1785 and by 1840 it was one of the most important whaling centers in the country.

1844

When the last whaling ship sailed out of Hudson in 1844, the city would have fallen on hard times had it not been for the money brought into the local economy by prostitutes, gamblers and gangsters.

1850

Hudson’s shipping fortunes, along with its related industries, were eclipsed by the arrival of the railroad in 1850.

The Gossips of Rivertown, with Sketches in Prose and Verse by Alice B. Nealy, 1850 Available in ebook format (check abebooks.com).

1852

In 1852, Almon Day Gray, Hudson's first mayor, petitioned to change the name of the city to "Hudson", because the bluffs along the St Croix reminded him of the Hudson River in his native New York.

1862

Historical Sketches of Hudson, by Stephen B. Miller (1862) (Available in ebook format (check abebooks.com).

1878

History of Columbia County, New York, by Everts & Ensign (1878). Available in ebook format (check abebooks.com).

1892

Navigational improvements began in 1797, and in 1892 the Hudson was declared a federal government waterway.

1908

History of the City of Hudson New York with biographical sketches of Henry Hudson and Robert Fulton, by Anna Rossman Bradbury (1908.

1912

In 1912, General Rosalie Jones and her army of suffragettes, trudging on foot from New York City to Albany to deliver a New Year’s message to the new governor, stopped in Hudson to celebrate Christmas.

1950

In 1950, state troopers, on the order of Governor Thomas Dewey, raided Diamond Street and shut down Hudson’s notorious red light district—a legacy from its seaport days.

1966

Columbia-Greene Community College, part of the State University of New York system, was founded in 1966 in Hudson.

1994

Diamond Street: The Story of the Little Town with the Big Red Light District (Black Dome Press, 1994)Margaret Schram.

2004

Article: Did the Underground Railroad Run through Columbia County? , by Jim Hamilton, page 14: Columbia County History and Heritage, Fall 2004, Published by the Columbia County Historical Society: http://www.cchsny.org/uploads/3/2/1/7/32173371/cchh_fall_04.pdf

2005

Historic Hudson: An Architectural Portrait (Black Dome Press, 2005)Bruce Edward Hall.

2017

Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley (SUNY series, An American Region: Studies in the Hudson Valley), by Michael E. Groth (2017)

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